Filip's Arts Blog

    The Romantic era started around 1780 and ended around 1830. During this era, the artists started to show a sense of emotions, something that was not really done before where reason and order were the most important means to understand the world. This was a reaction against the Neoclassical era where many of the romantic artists emphasized the individual's connection to the nature and a more idealized past than before. The two different styles that I have choosen for this blog post to do some research about is heroism and nationalism. The individual's connection to the past was a big thing during the romantic era and artists were starting to creating an idealized past with actual events that happened. A good example of this is the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix and if you want to read more about that painting, you can visit my last blog post here.  The artists were trying to express a more sense and more emotions with the paintings and a lot of the e

       During the 1700s, revolutions in both America and Europe happened which has influenced our lives greatly today. We can often get a good insight and some clues of how the people and lives were lived during the time the art was created with some analysis. The revolutions happened because of similar reasons such as economic struggles, monarchy, and unequal rights. A revolutionary war happened as a consequence of this as we can see in the first painting The Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumball in 1786.      John Trumball is the artist behind The Battle of Bunker Hill that occurred in June 1775 and was both the first major battle of the revolutionary war and the first of a series of paintings that John Trumball did of major events during the American Revolution. The battle occurred two months after the opening battles but was the first major one where the British troops wanted to win Boston after the patriot troops had succeeded in their patriotic siege of Boston. This was the resp

  The Nightwatch (1642) Description:  This painting was made by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1642 and Rembrandt is still considered one of the greatest artists in history. The dark impressions in this art work got it the name "The Nightwatch" after it was first planned to be named "The company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch. This is a giant painting, measuring 11.91 ft x 14.34 ft, That is one of the reasons for its fame, and other ones is that it is coherent, dynamic and incredibly realistic. I get this realistic feeling and dynamic feeling because of Rembrandt use of lights and shadows, especially the light on two of the characters in the painting. This is not only one of Rembrandt's, but also one of the most famous painting in the Dutch Golden Age. Personally, I would love to own an art piéce from Rembrandt and especially this one. After now learning about humanism, the different renaissance, and the dutch era I feel like I have more k