Inventing the Romantic artist

Romanticism
1. anti rationalism
2. emotion/intuition
3. fantasy/mysticism
4. reaction against v dev out of Enlightenment
  1. classicism X
the artist
1. rejected dictats of the academies
  1. individualist
    1. imagination
      1. feelings
2. not women
  1. female model
    1. the muse
      1. Raphael + Fornarina, Ingres 1814
        Ingres desire can be channeled into art
        Ingres ids with Raphael
        same pose as Madonna della Sedia
        likened to Madonna della Sedia
        Grande Odalisque 1814
        idealised nude
        Vigee female artist, self portrait 1786
3. man of genius
  1. madness
    1. suffering genius Barry Timanthes 1780
    3. idea from antiquity
    4. medical science
    5. creative melancholy = diff to normal madness
  2. female model
  3. self portrait
    1. Josh Reynolds v David
Pictorial genres
1. the nude
2. landscapes
  1. Friedrich Monk by the Sea 1809
    1. brevity of life + national identity
  2. English landscapes opp to academic tradition
    1. brushwork admired original x drawing
    2. Constable landscapes = his self portrait
  3. Courbet Realism
    1. political
    2. Bohemian
    3. The Painter's Studio 1855
3. self portrait
art institutions
1. academies
  1. imitate antique = true style
  2. rejected dictats of the academies

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