Theodore Gericault “Evening: Landscape with an aqueduct” in 1818

Theodore Gericault was a French painter who painted “Evening: Landscape with an aqueduct” in 1818″. The painting is one of four paintings representing the times of day but he failed to draw all four. The other paintings are called “Morning: Landscape with Fishermen” and “Noon: Landscape with a Roman Tomb”. These are series of oil paintings on canvas. These paintings are under the category of Romanticism because it portrays the idea of revolution in scientific world with natural scenes.

The background of these paintings are inspired during his trip to Italian countryside in 1817 “with the stormy skies and turbulent moods characteristics of the emerging aesthetic of Romanticism and the Anglo-French concept of the Sublime. Also this was combined with his personal problems, which was his family problem upon uprising of arguments among them. Romanticism is also portraying personal feelings onto a paintings or works that artists produce.

David KIM

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“Length of Woven Silk” is a Chinese textile based on European silk designs called “bizarre”. This textile was designed in China around the time 1710-20 with silk satin, brocaded, gilt and silver paper wrapped thread brocading. It contains a “sophisticated melange of lush flora and fantastic architectural features” which is from European silks around the time 1695 to 1720. This was unique silk because most of Chinese exports silks are woven on wider looms, however, this one does not include that. Many people predict that this silk was made to circumvent the English and French because they banned importing Asian silks around the eighteenth century. So including the styles of an European silks are to distract the trade route for Chinese to be able to export their silks.

David Kim