Romanticism, Realism, Photography
Book: Access for Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 15th Edition Fred S. Kleiner Textbook ISBN-10: 1-305-66582-1 Textbook ISBN-13: 978-1-305-
66582-8 Please answer following question
1.Discuss the influence of David on later artists.
2.Visit the Google Art Project: http://www.googleartproject.com/ (Links to an external site.). Go to the Alte Nationalgalerie and locate Monk by the Sea, a painting by
Caspar David Friedrich. Does your reaction to the picture resemble that of another viewer who said, ". . . the main space of the picture seems like an abyss of
some kind; there are no boundaries, there is nothing to hold on to . . . ?" Explain.
3.Compare the ways both artists used or discarded the Baroque treatment of light in their paintings. Compare the compositional techniques of arrangement, color, line,
light, and scale used by both artists to enhance the dramatic (or even shocking) qualities of their paintings.(pictures are in upload)
4. What do the content of and circumstances surrounding Goya’s Black Paintings reveal about shifts in the nature of artistic production?
5.Explain what Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa reveal about 19 th -century ideas about humankind and nature
6.Compare David’s Oath of the Horatii and the Coronation of Napoleon . How does each work relate to the sociopolitical climate of the period? What devices does the
artist employ in each work? Are the works successful in describing the event and the political moment?