Romantic art is a very dramatic and expresses strong feelings. And the majority of the events depicted in romantic style paintings are based off of true events.
In 1819 a painting calld Raft of Medusa was painted by Theodore Gericault. The painting shows about 15 men on araft put together by the scrapes of the ship of Medusa that was wrecked. The Medusa ship sank along the seas of Africa. Gericault made this to state the tragic events the men went through. The ship had an inexperienced captain that was the son of a noble men. So whent he ship went down the captain left on one of the life boats instead of staying with the sinking ship. The raft has a Diagonal effect, the bottom corners both show sign of death and loss of hope. While the top corner and diagonal from there cornerpart across from them show hope and the drive for life as they are callin
g the ship in the distance to come rescue them.The next painting that is a great example for the romantic style is call The Lion Hunt by Eugene Delacroix. This painting is very exotic and dramtic. the deatil in the painting is amazing. the swirling colors and the way the shading gives a look of movement like the people and lions are really fighting.
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