ART F200X Blogs

For this Romantic Era blog, two styles that I have found to my liking are Romanticism and Art Nouveau. These two styles have things that I have found very interesting, and the painting were always so lovely in my eyes.  The first two artworks I want to represent are " Zodiaque ("La Plume") " by Alphonse Marie Mucha for the Art Nouveau style and " Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds " by John Constable for the Romanticism style. This first Art Nouveau art is called " Zodiaque ("La Plume") " which was created in 1896-1897 in a 63x47 cm (24 13/16x18 9/16 in.) Color lithograph from multiple stones on tan wove paper. When this design was created it was supposed to be for an in-house calendar for the company, Champenois, that Alphonse Mucha works under. Of course, this changed when chief editor, Leon Deschamps, of the 'La Plume' magazine bought the right to put it on the magazines 1897 calendar. Which then on "The Z

[Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), An Experiment on a bird in the Air Pump, 1768 oil on canvas,  72 x 96 1/16 in. Presented by Edward Tyrrell, 1863.]      The first art piece is called "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" painted by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).  This oil painting was completed in 1768 on a 183 cm x (72 in x 94 1/2 in) canvas that is now housed at the National Gallery in London.  The story behind this painting is more terrifying than fascinating about what science can actually show you. In the picture, we can see a lot of different expressions being shown but I would say that it shows two different perspectives of things between an adult and a child. From the adults, we can see their fascination for what they have seen and learned from this experiment shown by the man in red robes. While we see disturbed looks by the children with what they seen. "The true subject of the painting might therefore be human nature as it is affected by the mate