Delacroix's Sleeping Body
Gail Anderson
Faculty Lisa Koen
Art History: From the Early Modern to the Contemporary
May 29, 2014
Assignment 2: Discussion Forum
Do you prefer the work of the French Romantics or the Spanish Romantics? Why? Please provide examples for support. In essence, I prefer the work of the French Romantics oppose to the Spanish Romantics. My reason for choosing the work of the French Romantics is the rich vivid colors and smooth flow of the lines and shape, whereas the Spanish Romantic work uses more dismal and dark colors, and rigid lines. For example, the work of Francisco de Goya’s etching, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c.1799 is a dark depiction of him sleeping while creatures surround and converging upon his sleeping body. I interpret this to mean that these are his nightmares and he is expressing the fears in his …show more content…
Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People. Khan Academy, n.d. Web. 29 May 2014.
“Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.”-Smart history. Khan Academy, n.d. Web. 29 May 2014.
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes. http://digitalbookshelf.aionline.edu/books/1111904871/id/F12-9
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes. http://digitalbookshelf.aionline.edu/books/1111904871/id/F12-7
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes. http://digitalbookshelf.aionline.edu/books/1111904871/id/F12-6
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes.
Faculty Lisa Koen
Art History: From the Early Modern to the Contemporary
May 29, 2014
Assignment 2: Discussion Forum
Do you prefer the work of the French Romantics or the Spanish Romantics? Why? Please provide examples for support. In essence, I prefer the work of the French Romantics oppose to the Spanish Romantics. My reason for choosing the work of the French Romantics is the rich vivid colors and smooth flow of the lines and shape, whereas the Spanish Romantic work uses more dismal and dark colors, and rigid lines. For example, the work of Francisco de Goya’s etching, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c.1799 is a dark depiction of him sleeping while creatures surround and converging upon his sleeping body. I interpret this to mean that these are his nightmares and he is expressing the fears in his …show more content…
Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People. Khan Academy, n.d. Web. 29 May 2014.
“Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.”-Smart history. Khan Academy, n.d. Web. 29 May 2014.
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes. http://digitalbookshelf.aionline.edu/books/1111904871/id/F12-9
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes. http://digitalbookshelf.aionline.edu/books/1111904871/id/F12-7
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes. http://digitalbookshelf.aionline.edu/books/1111904871/id/F12-6
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner 's Art through the Ages: A Concise History of Western Art. 2nd Edition. Cengage Learning, 2010. VitalBook file. The Art Institutes.