Romantic art often depicted scenes of dynamic energy to convey both political and psychological movements. Explore the ways in which artists can create a sense of rhythm in their art, and then analyze the works of Géricault, Delacroix, and Goya in this light. How does each create a sense of action in his works? What do their styles share, and how do they differ? Art>Elements of Art>Shape>Composition>Rhythm http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/1/2/3/2.html
Examine the ways that works of art guide viewers’ eyes across a composition. Analyze the landscape paintings of Turner, Constable, and Cole in this light. The painters all took different approaches to painting landscape; did they also take different approaches to drawing their viewers’ eyes across the composition? Which element of the composition does each artist emphasize? Art>Elements of Art>Composition>Movement http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/1/2/3/1.html
Explore the works of a variety of Romantic artists in the context of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In terms of their concerns, styles, and subject matter, did the Romantics fit better in one century than in the other? That is, would an early eighteenth-century painting have more in common with a Romantic painting than a late nineteenth-century painting? How did Romanticism fit into the overall body of nineteenth-century art? Art>Art History>Search Across Time>18th century http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/3/1/7.html and Art>Art History>Search Across Time>19th century http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/3/1/8.html
