Explain what Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa reveal about 19 th -century ideas about humankind and nature
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August 19, 2019Explain what Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa reveal about 19 th -century ideas about humankind and nature
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1. Describe the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
2. Visit the Google Art Project: http://www.googleartproject.com/ (Links to an external site.). Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Watch the media resource available at the right side of the portrait of theComtesse d’Haussonville, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. After listening to the comments on the sense of intimacy in the painting, comment on details of the portrait that contribute to the feeling of intimacy.
3. Compare the ways both artists used or discarded the Baroque treatment of light in their paintings. Compare the compositional techniques of arrangement, color, line, light, and scale used by both artists to enhance the dramatic (or even shocking) qualities of their paintings. (I uploaded the pictures)
4. What do the content of and circumstances surrounding Goya’s Black Paintings reveal about shifts in the nature of artistic production?
5. Compare David’s Oath of the Horatii and the Coronation of Napoleon . How does each work relate to the sociopolitical climate of the period? What devices does the artist employ in each work? Are the works successful in describing the event and the political moment?
6. Explain what Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa reveal about 19 th -century ideas about humankind and nature
