Romantic Artists
Essay title: Romantic Artists
Romantic Artists
Romantic Artists
Romantic Artists
Romantic Artists
The Romantic Era of art has little or nothing to do with romantic thoughts. Rather it is stated as “An international and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.”(
This being said I have looked at this era with excitement and decided to showcase three artists that showed the true feelings of this time in history. The first artist is William Blake. He was a British artist that lived from 1757 – 1827. The painting that I will look at is called “Catherine Blake”. This is a painting of his wife while she was working some say on some of his work. William met Catherine in 1781 and married a year later, they stayed together for nearly forty-five years without more than a day apart in that time.
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William taught Catherine how to do several things such as: read, how to use a printing press and how to color the pages of his illustrated books. This sketch was on a loose piece of paper while William watched his wife work. This sketch was done on paper with graphite in the year 1805. The sketch was not overly a finished piece but the beauty of this is the simplicity, the husband looking and drawing the beauty that is his wife. During a period of time called the Romantic the artist took it to heart even though the bulk of the art that was produced during this time does not reflect the same feeling.
The second artist that was chosen was Thomas Doughty. He was a founding member of the Hudson River School, which was a collection of painters that were inspired by the beauty of the American wilderness. Thomas was an American who lived from 1793-1856. The piece that I wanted to discuss was “The Lake of the Mountains”. The painting was first sketched and then painted in 1829. Thomas was famous for sketching and painting the landscape while he was on the site of his inspiration (
The third artist that was chosen is Frederic Edwin Church. He was an American who was also very instrumental in the Hudson River School. Frederic was a son of a very rich man which led to his ability to travel and sketch. “From the spring to autumn of
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each year Church would travel, often by foot, sketching. He would return each winter to paint and sell his work” (