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Famous Paintings

What Critics Said

  • Fuseli painted 3 different paintings of The Nightmare.
  • It portraits a sleeping woman and the content of her nightmare.
  • The work was most likely inspired by the walking dreams.
  • The painting is now located on the Detroit Institute of Art.

Background

Influences

  • Born in Zurich, Switzerland second of a family of 18 children.
  • His father , Johann Caspar Fuseli, was a painter of landscapes and the author of "Lives of the Helvetic Painters".
  • Went to the Caroline college of Zurich, and got a classical education.
  • He was kiked out of the country and left to England.
  • Married Sophia Rawlins , one of his models.

What made Fuseli unique?

What Type of Style

  • Sir Joshua Reynolds influenced Fuseli.
  • Reynolds was an English artist that specialized in portraits.
  • He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.
  • He was the founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts.
  • Fuseli was in the Romantic movement.
  • Romanticism is an art movement that originated in Europe that was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.
  • The movement emphasized on emotions such as apprehension, horror, and terror.
  • Romanticism revived Medievalism.

  • Fuseli was the master of light and shadows.
  • He painted everything with an ideal scale
  • He believed that a certain amount of exaggeration is necessary in the higher branches of historical painting.
  • One of his method included deliberately exaggerating the proportions of the human body and throwing his figures into deformed attitudes.

Henry Fuseli

1741-1825

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