Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century and ended in the late 19th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

The Industrial Revolution also influenced Romanticism, which was about escaping from modern realities. Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.

John Constable was an English artist born on June 11, 1776. Constable contributed to the Romantic movement and died on March 31, 1837.

Constable was one of the first artists of the Romantic movement to create landscape paintings drawn directly from nature rather than the idealised and dramatic depictions favored by other artists of the period and in taking this stance he pioneered Naturalism in Britain.

5 most focused elements in romanticism

Interest in the common man and childhood.

Strong senses, emotions, and feelings.

Awe of nature.

Celebration of the individual

Importance of imagination.

THE SUBLIME

What is it?

The sublime of art was originally defined as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. meaning how there is a ‘greatness beyond all possibility of calculation.’

in romanticism, the sublime is a meeting of emotions and the natural world. we allow our emotions to overwhelm and take over our rationality by looking at art.

Edmund Burke

The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. He wrote ‘whatever is in any sort terrible or is conversant about terrible objects or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime’.

sublime photography

This is my photo gallery of photoshop and Lightroom edits.

I mainly used layering techniques on photoshop to created different images. On the right hand side (the image with the shoes) i used four photos from the same angle and position however with different lighting and cropped different parts of the photos and aligned them up in the original background photo, creating an illusion of the shoes being different colours,

In conclusion, I believe I have done well in this still life project as I have never previously done photography. I have broadened my knowledge on photography and now have a greater understanding about cameras. During this project I have also learned how to use Adobe Light Room Classic and Adobe Photoshop which I enjoyed, as I am now able to edit the photos i have taken to make them more interesting and create more of a meaning behind them.

However, I believe if I could do better and this will be achieved as I get further into the course and improve my skills. For the next project I will be taking more photos leading to a wider selection that I can choose from for editing and my final images.

I then added texture for the collage by using red tape to create a red boarder the the second image. I also used a red marker pen to draw around where I cut out the image of the mannequin to add a sense or shadowing.

Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image may appear as a seamless physical print. 

It was first used as a technique by the dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First World War. It was later adopted by the surrealists who exploited the possibilities photomontage offered by using free association to bring together widely disparate images, to reflect the workings of the unconscious mind.

1. A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.

1. Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
2. Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsk

1. Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism

Mary Ellen-Bartley is a photographer who mainly focuses on taking photos of books. Just as the covid-19 pandemic hit she was in italy at the time taking photos at the Giorgio Morandi studio and library, where she has to quickly leave and get the next flight back to her home in new york.

it was during her quarantine where she decided to chose 7 house hold items to photograph for every day of April. an example of one of the days she photographed is just above.

every day she would re-arrange each object, some days would be more subtle tan others however, each day was different. as you tell from the photo above and below.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

What were the goals of New Objectivity in photography?The New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) emerged as a style in Germany in the 1920s as a challenge to Expressionism. As its name suggests, it offered a return to unsentimental reality and a focus on the objective world, as opposed to the more abstract, romantic, or idealistic tendencies of Expressionism.

The new objectivity is a very minimalistic choice of photography which includes a lot of lines and repetition of shapes. It is mainly in black an white which adds depth.

Karl Blossfeldt

my photos