Katelyn's Exploration In Art

       From the many styles that are in the Romantic Era my favorite is the Realist style. I love that Realism depicts ordinary everyday experiences and through those depictions there is an authenticity to the subject matter shared. Realism developed after, and in a reaction against the next style I am going to share, Romanticism. I personally and not a huge fan of the Romanticism style. Romanticism was created to elicit emotions and feelings, and that is not what I feel when looking at this style. I do find it to be enchanting and very beautiful landscapes in some cases but the style would not be my first choice.  I am going to be examining two paintings that depict Romanticism compared to two pantings that are of the Realist Style.        The first painting is The Nightmare  done by Henry Fuseli in 1781 on Oil on canvas but I am unsure of where. This odd and erotic piece by Fuseli portrays a woman covered in white light laying across a bed with her limbs hanging partly off. There is

       The Classical Era had two different styles of art that had two very different connections to morality in this time period. The style of the two that came first was Rococo style. Rococo style art in the Classical era was not seen to depict true philosophy of any type instead simply seen and enjoyed for entertainment. Rococo art is beautiful, feminine, bright, and carefree. It generally showed curving shapes in form with pastel colors making the subject matter light. Rococo style of art is highly romantic and idealized even going as far as saying hedonistic. It is not a reflection of real life or morality. Rococo style caused awareness for people to question if Classical era art and artists were emphasizing on mortality enough in their creations. on I will be examining two painting from this style, A Young Lady with a Parrot (1730), by Rosalba Carriera and The Stolen Kiss (1780), by Jean-Honoroe Fragonard. Rococo style reigned over the world until around 1775, but by 1785 it wa