Hogarth, Wright, Greuze, Fuseli
Genre Painting: satire
“Aren’t the upper classes stupid?”
William Hogarth
William Hogarth A Scene from the Beggar’s Opera
1728-1729 oil on canvas
William Hogarth
Marriage à la Mode
1743 oil on canvas
William Hogarth
Marriage à la Mode
1743 oil on canvas
William Hogarth
An Election Entertainment
1754 oil on canvas
Genre Painting:
“Science is really, really cool!”
Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary
1766 oil on canvas
Joseph Wright
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
1768 oil on canvas
6’ x 8’
Genre Painting: drame bourgeois
“middle-class drama”
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Filial Piety
1763 oil on canvas
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
L'Accordée de Village
1763 oil on canvas
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
The Father's Curse: The Ungrateful Son
1777 oil on canvas
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
The Father's Curse: The Son Punished
1777 oil on canvas
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Stolen Kiss
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
1769
Septimius Severus and Caracalla
oil on canvas
Romanticism
John Henry Fuseli
Romanticism
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual
movement that originated in the second half of the 18th
century in Western Europe.
In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and
political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction
against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was
embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and
literature, but can be detected even in changed attitudes
towards children and education.
The movement validated strong emotion as an
authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new
emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, terror, horror and
awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the
sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both
new aesthetic categories.
Romanticism
In European painting, led by a new generation of the French
school, the Romantic sensibility contrasted with the
neoclassicism being taught in the academies.
In a revived clash between color and design, the
expressiveness of color, as in works of Turner, Gericault, and
Delacroix, was emphasized in the new prominence of the
brushstroke and impasto and in the artist's free handling of
paint, which tended to be repressed in neoclassicism under a
self-effacing finish.
In literature—among others—Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William
Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord
Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
John Henry Fuseli The Nightmare
1781 oil on canvas
John Henry Fuseli The Shepherd’s Dream
1793 oil on canvas
John Henry Fuseli Silence
1799-1801 oil on canvas
John Henry Fuseli Lady MacBeth
1784 oil on canvas
John Henry Fuseli
The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments
1778-79 red chalk on sepia wash