Heodore Géricault's Accomplishments
Artist: -Théodore Géricault who was an influential French painter and lithographer
-he was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement even though he died at the age of 32
Patron: -there was no actual patron for this work but this work was meant to rather give him a boost of popularity
-a controversial and well known event depiction like this he thought might help him garner a lot of public interest and start his career in a grand debut
Original location of work: -it’s first appearance was in the Paris Salon in 1819 and now is in the Louvre in Paris
Medium: -Oil on a canvas that is 16 feet by 24 feet
Style/Technique: -figures are very heroic looking and look healthier than they really might’ve been
-since this is a proto-Romanticism painting, it had a mixture of the real and unreal
-there is a wide spectrum of emotion and feeling evident in the expressions of the bodies which could reflect …show more content…
Many thought it was a result of the stupidity of the French captain who people thought was acting under the authority of King Louis XVIII even though monarchs aren’t in charge of appointing captains for navel ships. The Ministry of the Navy are the people who regularly appoint captains for navel ships.
-Gericault prepared well in advance before creating the final masterpiece. He made many preparatory sketches, interviewed some survivors as part of his research, asked a carpenter to make a scaled model in detail of the raft, surrounded himself with decapitated human parts, and went to morgues to observe the appearance of corpses. This wasn’t just to be as accurate as possible but also it was to keep a gruesome frame of mind of death and mortality
-this painting’s creation takes place during the period of time in France called the Restoration where the monarchy has been restored. Napoleon has gotten the throne after the French revolution but then lost the throne and then a new corrupt monarch took up the
-he was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement even though he died at the age of 32
Patron: -there was no actual patron for this work but this work was meant to rather give him a boost of popularity
-a controversial and well known event depiction like this he thought might help him garner a lot of public interest and start his career in a grand debut
Original location of work: -it’s first appearance was in the Paris Salon in 1819 and now is in the Louvre in Paris
Medium: -Oil on a canvas that is 16 feet by 24 feet
Style/Technique: -figures are very heroic looking and look healthier than they really might’ve been
-since this is a proto-Romanticism painting, it had a mixture of the real and unreal
-there is a wide spectrum of emotion and feeling evident in the expressions of the bodies which could reflect …show more content…
Many thought it was a result of the stupidity of the French captain who people thought was acting under the authority of King Louis XVIII even though monarchs aren’t in charge of appointing captains for navel ships. The Ministry of the Navy are the people who regularly appoint captains for navel ships.
-Gericault prepared well in advance before creating the final masterpiece. He made many preparatory sketches, interviewed some survivors as part of his research, asked a carpenter to make a scaled model in detail of the raft, surrounded himself with decapitated human parts, and went to morgues to observe the appearance of corpses. This wasn’t just to be as accurate as possible but also it was to keep a gruesome frame of mind of death and mortality
-this painting’s creation takes place during the period of time in France called the Restoration where the monarchy has been restored. Napoleon has gotten the throne after the French revolution but then lost the throne and then a new corrupt monarch took up the