NEO-CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC ART

Neo-Classical and Romantic Art

Neo-Classical and Romantic Art

Neo-Classical work: Analysis of Watteau''s The Storm and Delacroix''s The Sea of Galilee

In matching the two paintings, Watteau's "The Storm" and Delacroix's "Christ on the Sea of Galilee", it is very easy to glimpse the dissimilarities inside the two paintings and work out which one is more of a Romantic work and which one is more of a Neo-classical work. "The Storm" by Watteau is noticeably from the Neo-classical era, while "Christ on the Sea of Galilee" is from the Romantic era. There are several dissimilarities between the two paintings that notify Person this and some characteristics inside the paintings that disclose the methods within. (http://www.archive.org/stream/)

In looking at "The Storm", the Neo-classical distinctiveness that stands out most to me are things for example the clear profile of the persons inside the painting. Person is effortlessly adept to glimpse the signs on the faces yet Person is keenly cognizant of the detail that Person will not seem the strong sentiments inside the "personalities" of the persons depicted. The decorating is of a gale, although, it depicts a time happening just instants before the genuine spectacular happening of the gale takes place. Neoclassicism illustrates the conviction that a "rational state of brain is accepted to be the perfect state, strong feeling is stifled to the minimum."

As Person study "Christ on the Sea of Galilee", the spectacular method of the Romantic era stands out clearly. Nothing in the decorating itself is really clear and identifiable, yet the decorating as a entire apparently depicts a vicious storm. The farthest power of the gale virtually leaps out at Person yet the decorating as a entire is distorted, as if it is part of a dream. The colors inside the decorating are much more vivid and alert yet ...