Romantic Landscape Painting in England, Germany and the U.S.
J. M. W. Turner: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834 (1835), oil on canvas, 36 x 50" Turner: Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming), 1840, o/c, 35 3/4 x 48 1/4 in.
John Constable: Cornfield, 1826 (one of the "six-footers" - 56" x 48") Constable: Haywain, 1821, oil on canvas, 4'3 x 6'2
Thomas Cole: The Oxbow (Connecticut River near Northampton), 1836, oil on canvas, 76 x 51-1/2" Cole: Destruction (4th painting in The Course of the Empire, 1833-6, a set of 5 paintings)
Frederick Church: Heart of the Andes, 1859, Oil on canvas, 66 x 119" Church: Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, oil on canvas, 3'4 x 5'4
Albert Bierstadt: Sierra Nevada in California, 1868, oil on canvas, 6' x 10' (luminism) Casper David Friedrich: Abbey in an Oak Grove, 1809-1810, oil/canvas, 3'7 x 5'7 Friedrich: Sea of Ice (Arctic Shipwreck), 1823 - 1824, oil on canvas, 38 x 50"
What is Romanticism? • a cult of the personal • a cult of the expressive • a preference for emotion and spirituality over reason and intellect • a cult of suffering as a means to transcendence • a international movement which affects all the arts: painting, music, and literature
14. ROMANTICISM AND THE L ANDSCAPE
Creator Joseph Mallord William Turner British, 1775-1851, European; British Title Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming Date 1840
Creator Constable, John Title Haywain Date 1821
Creator Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848 Title Oxbow Connecticut River near Northampton Date 1836
Creator Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848. Title Course of empire: destruction Date 1836.
Creator Frederic Edwin Church, 1826-1900 Title Heart of the Andes Date 1859
Creator Frederic Edwin Church, North American; American, 1826 - 1900, (artist) Title Twilight in the Wilderness Date 1860
Creator Albert Bierstadt, North American; American, 1830 Germany-1902 USA, (Artist) Title Among the Sierra Nevada, California Date 1868
Creator Friedrich, Caspar David, German Title Abbey in an Oak Grove Date 1809-1810