The first Industrial revolution began from the
1800 till 1848. Basically it began from the French revolution. This revolution
brought many major changes in political life, from public and subjective
experience. This changed from large characterizes the new style of
romanticism. These romantic painters show their emotions and thoughts in their drawings such as, the first painting of David Gros. This painting was made in 1804 ,he went five years back in time,showing Napoleon visiting a hospital to see his troops. As a composition David Gros is showing a sense of
feeling, uses warm, sensual colours, extreme of dark and light parts, contrast
and dramatic scene. He focuses on the dead and dying people.
When Napoleon visit his troops
Another
painting that is called the Raft of the Medusa is painted by Gericault. This is
made in 1818 till 1819. Gericault`s painting is showing the frightening,
confusion and it is well composed. The story of this painting is about 150
people in a raft trying to survive but unfortunately 15 only survived.
The famous shipwreck / Raft that Gericault made.
If you can see in these Paintings there are a combination of showing the same sense of feeling and also are drawn like a dramatic scene.
There are more artists that painted romanticism in this period such as
Goya the romanticism of Spain, Turner the romanticism of England that shows a
tragic, The German Caspar David Friedrich and then it continues in the United
States from different artists.
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