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CLASSICISM vs. ROMANTICISM
Neo-Classicism vs Romanticism
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Greek/Roman influence
Emphasis on Society
Age of Reason
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Science
Medieval/Oriental influence
Emphasis on Individual
Age of Passion
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Rationality
Philosophy
Deism
Euro-centric
Cities
Enlightenment
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Emotion
Imagination
Spirituality
Interest in the Exotic
Nature: pastoral and wild
Revolution
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Social Justice
NATURE
Neo-Classical
Romantic
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Universal
Subject to human control
Gardens
Source of peace and
tranquillity
Untamed nature:
dangerous/evil
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Particular
Beyond human control
Mountains, oceans,
forests
Source of inspiration
and spirituality
Untamed nature:
exhilarating/sublime
Gainsborough, St James Park
Friedrich, Solitary Tree
LOVE
Neo-Classical
Romantic
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Universal
Subject to human control
Marriage
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Social Contract
Economic Contract
Attraction between social
and intellectual equals
Source of peace and
tranquillity
Particular
Beyond human control
Passion
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Individual choice
Search for soul-mate
Forbidden attractions:
social, exotic, incestual
Source of inspiration,
exhilaration and despair
Gaspar Netscher
A Musical Evening
John Smibert, Bishop Berkeley and His Family
Caspar David Friedrich, Woman at Sunrise
William Blake
The Enslavement of Experience
The Transcendance of Imagination
Neo-Classical
Artist
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Social
Arbiter (judge) of
Taste
Elitist
Moral
Intellectual
Critic
Louis Michel van Loo Portrait of Diderot
Romantic
Artist
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Loner
Unconventional (not
bound by rules)
Interested in the “noble
savage”
Amoral (w/out moral
quality)
Genius
Prophet
George Gordon Lord Byron
Which one is Neo-Classical Art?
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Apotheosis of Homer (1827)
B
raphaelschoolofathens
Which one is Romantic Art?
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B
In The Ear, 1865″ by George Cochran Lambdin (1830-1896)
Last one- Romantic Art?
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B
Romantic Landscape' by John Trumbull, Dayton Art Institute