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CURIOUS CALLBACK Episode #51: Shock Art: Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa (Season 5, Episode 5)

ArtCurious Podcast

ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8847 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Works that we take for granted today as masterpieces, or as epitomes of the finest of fine art, could also have been considered ugly, of poor quality, or just bad when they were first made. With the passage of time comes a calm and an acceptance. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are many works peppered throughout art history that were straight-up shocking to the public when they were first presented decades, or even hundreds of years ago. Today's work of "shock art:" Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts! SPONSORS Indeed: get a free sponsored job upgrade on your first post The Gabriel Method: try this 12-week weight loss solution from Jon Gabriel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi everyone. We are currently hard at work on our seventh season. So please enjoy this curious callback episode of Art Curious.

0:40.1

Stay tuned for the announcement of our release date of season 7 and some other really, really exciting news.

0:47.1

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0:48.7

The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight.

0:51.4

For more information about all of Anchorlight's artistic and creative endeavors,

0:56.4

please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. The Romantic period of art history is one of my absolute favorites.

1:05.1

And by Romantic, with a capital R, we mean something that isn't all lovety-dovey. It's not like

1:10.4

when we say a movie is romantic,

1:12.1

for example. It's a movement that entranced Europe beginning with the late 18th century and onwards

1:17.5

through the mid to late 19th century, and it wasn't just limited to visual art, but music, poetry,

1:23.7

fiction, theater too. In art, it took the form of a glorification of strong emotions and the praise

1:29.7

of the natural world. So think awe-inspiring mountains, that kind of thing. Feelings, they reigned supreme.

1:37.2

But with the romantics, it wasn't only good, positive feelings that were considered worthy.

1:42.1

Equally, it was the feeling of horror, of anger, of fear.

1:46.7

Those are the things that drove creators to create. And one of the most iconic works of art

1:51.4

from the Romantic period in France generated all these feelings and more, and caused people

1:56.9

to take sides in some extremely huge topics of the day.

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