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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