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Romantic Orientalism
RomanticOrientalism
Romantic Orientalism
Romantic Orientalism
Romanticism and Orientalism
• Romantic hero, liberty• Rise and fall of white male
masculinity• Decline of emperor Napoleon—
decline of heroism• Rise of the Orient
– Depicted as lazy, idle– Repress fantasies onto the Orient—forbidden
passions are indulged– Violent, barbaric, male domination over
female
Goya, Yard with Lunatics, 1793-
1794
Pre-Romanticism!
•Insanity•Irrationality•Imprisonment
Goya, Witches Sabbath,
1797-1798
Pre-Romanticism!
•Superstitions•Overwhelming Terror
Goya, The Family of Charles VI, 1800
Goya, The Third of May, 1808
Christ-Like
French Troops a.k.a ruthless killers
Goya, Saturn Devouring One of
His Children, 1819-1823
Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819
Gericault, Portrait of a
Young Man in an Artist’s
Studio, 1818-1819
Ingres, Louis Bertin,
1832
Ingres, Odalisque with a Slave, 1839-1840
Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1859-1863
Gerome, Moorish Bath,
1880-1885
Delacroix, Massacre at Chios,
1824
Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus, 1827
Delacroix, Turk Smoking on a Divan, 1832
Delacroix, Women of Algiers, 1834
Compare
The Use of “The Orient” In Today’s Society
How is “The Orient” depicted in this ad?
What characteristicsof Orientalism are present?
The Use of the White Male Hero
How is the white male hero presented in this ad?
Romanticism Landscape
• Elevate status of landscape genre – Irrational– Imaginative– Emotional– New world view
Constable, Golding Constable’s Flower Garden, 1815
Constable, The Haywain, 1821
Turner, Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1834-1835
Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840
Friedrich, The Polar Sea, 1824