An intriguing Friday Afternoon Challenge awaits you: Madness and Terror in the Romantic impulse!

[CTyankee]

Last edited Sat Aug 25, 2012, 01:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Here is your challenge to find the artists and titles of the following:

(and, of course, we don’t cheat here!)

1. Casa de Locos, Goya
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2. Crusaders Entering Constantinople, Delacroix
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3.Severed Heads, Gericault
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4. Revolt in Cairo, Girondet
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5.Nighmare, Fuseli
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6. The Great Red Dragon and Beast of the Sea, Blake
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[cthulu2016]

1. #5 is Fuseli's The Nightmare (added more on edit)

An image that was recreated in Ken Russell's movie GOTHIC

#4 looks like David's Rape of the Sabines, after a committee got done with it

The artist on #6 is obvious, but I sure don't know the title

The rest all look like Delacroix or Goya... neither of whom I've ever been able to get a good visual handle on.

Is #2 a detail from that Sardanopolus painting?

[CTyankee]

3. yup. had been considering the detail of the horse's head in the painting but liked this

gremlin better...Fuseli was a strange dude...altho he has a charming picture of a Midsummer Night's Dream "scratch my head, Peaseblossom" scene...

[CTyankee]

7. #2 is not the Death of Sardanopolus.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. #5 has something to do with nightmares,

can't think of the artist. #6 is by William Blake, don't know the name of the painting. Blake's style is very distinctive.

[CTyankee]

5. "The Great Red Dragon and the Beast of the Sea" is the title and yes, it is Blake!

Yayyy!

[lovemydog]

14. William Blake the poet?

I want to learn more.

Thanks for these challenges, I love them.

[CTyankee]

15. Blake rather epitomized the Romantic era in his writing and painting.

Romanticism is a fascinating era, spanning the late 18th to mid 19th century. Madness and terror were only two Romantic idioms. It was a revolt against classicism and reflected growing nationalism, a new sentiment for the earth's natural beauty and "sublimity," and this preoccupation with the metaphysical (as with Blake). Kennth Clark's classic book "The Romantic Rebellion" is a good read on it. Other British painters of the era include Constable and Turner.

I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful course on "Romanticism in the Arts of the 19th Century" in grad school. It encompassed not only painting but also poetry and music. What a time it was!

[lovemydog]

19. Now that I know Blake painted

I can view his visual work in addition to his writing. Thanks for sharing your wonderful knowledge here.

[pinboy3niner]

4. #4: Girodet, The Revolt of Cairo

[CTyankee]

6. Ooh, that was a toughie...how did you get it or do you know it?

[pinboy3niner]

8. I often find that I've encountered a work before in researching past Challenges

All kinds of stuff turns up in searches, and it's easy to go off on tangents.

The hard part is remembering titles and artists, so it usually takes more research to locate a work again and identify it properly.

Sometimes you catch the bus, sometimes the bus runs over you. But doing the Challenges is both challenging and fun, and I may even be learning something along the way.

[CTyankee]

9. I like that explanation! I, too, find things I didn't know about when I read widely...

sometimes noodling around brings you places you never thought you'd be and voila!

[librechik]

10. # 6 is William Blake illustration

The Great Red Dragon heh, that's what SHE said

[CTyankee]

11. Sure is...

[CTyankee]

12. I would have thought that the artist of #3 would have caused more interest here!

I find that a bit strange...it's pretty horrible...

[pinboy3niner]

13. #3: Theodore Gericault, Severed Heads

[CTyankee]

16. Grim, isn't it? Gericault is mostly known for ""The Raft of the Medusa" which is a fine work but

he did paint other fine works. The shows the era's fascination with gory stuff...I find it a bit scary...

[ellisonz]

17. These always make me realize how much my knowledge of great art is lacking. n/t

[entanglement]

18. Two guesses

Number 2 looks like a panel from "Rape of the Sabine Women"
Number 5 shows an Incubus sitting on a lady's chest - perhaps the "Nightmare"?

[CTyankee]

21. right on #5. #2 does look like it could be Rape of the Sabine Women but it is not...

[joeybee12]

20. #2 is the Death of the Virgin...

Not sure by who...lemme think, lemme think.

[CTyankee]

22. You might be thinking of Caravaggio or another depiction of Death of the Virgin

also called "the dormition." But it is not Caravaggio and it is not that theme.

[CTyankee]

23. I've posted the answers above each work.

Everybody did a great job! See you next week!