{"id":2382,"date":"2024-04-11T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:48:04","slug":"intro-to-western-art-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/11\/intro-to-western-art-4-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Western Art 4\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lecture today was on the style of art known as Romanticism. Stepping away from the morals and stiffer ideals of Neoclassicism, Romanticism encapsulated the emotional, exotic, picturesque, and contemporary aspects of art. Baron Antoine Jean Gros&#8217; <em>Napoleon at Jaffa<\/em> depicted the contemporary military figure and event of Napoleon conquering a middle eastern city. His location at the center of the composition glorifies Napoleon and works as French propaganda. The darkness around Napoleon appeals to the emotions, depicting his emergence from the death and suffering of the plague. Likening himself to a King with the powers of healing, it is a positive display of Napoleon&#8217;s military campaigns. <em>The Raft of Medusa<\/em> is another dramatic painting with dark colors and twisted dead bodies, meant to evoke powerful emotions. The depiction of the tragic contemporary event is dynamic with the bodies creating an x across the composition and the desperation felt through the paint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landscapes were also important during Romanticism, especially as society moved towards industrialism and left the countryside behind. Constable&#8217;s <em>The Haywain<\/em> has a nostalgic feel as people live and work in harmony with nature. It&#8217;s a picturesque representation of the simple joys of life and is calm, peaceful, and feels like a pause in a world of constant movement. Small white highlights in the painting, a technique that came to be known as &#8220;Constable snow,&#8221; give the scene a lightheartedness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture today was on the style of art known as Romanticism. Stepping away from the morals and stiffer ideals of Neoclassicism, Romanticism encapsulated the emotional, exotic, picturesque, and contemporary aspects of art. Baron Antoine Jean Gros&#8217; Napoleon at Jaffa depicted the contemporary military figure and event of Napoleon conquering a middle eastern city. His location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}