Romanticism
- 1. Artistic and Literary Movements Of the 17 th , 18 th , and early 19 th Centuries
- 2. Romanticism Artwork Based on Emotion
- 3. II. Characteristics of Romanticism Emphasis on emotion rather than reason as the message of artistic work Romanticism: Less about the “message” and more about the “emotion” Human beings are emotional (vs. Enlightenment rationality) idealizes individual freedoms Political Personal Spontaneity
- 4. Literature Rebelliousness / “Anti-hero” Lord Byron Stress on the heroic / adventure Alexandre Dumas – “The Count of Monte Cristo” “The Three Musketeers” “The Man in the Iron Mask” Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace (Russia fighting Napoleon) Preoccupation with sentiment and suffering Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – “Faust” (guy who sells his soul to the devil)
- 5. Literature continued: An attraction to the bizarre & unusual (science fiction?) Mary Shelley; Victor Hugo – What did They write?
- 6. Belief in the evolution of political and social institutions--led to an interest in the study of history! Sir Walter Scott – “Ivanhoe”, “Rob Roy” (emphasis on Medieval figures and stories)
- 7. Music Music: Individualism The piano sonata becomes popular: Franz Liszt Wagner – emphasizes Germanic mythology “ ride of the valkeries”
- 8. Nationalism influenced music Patriotic music popular Tchaikovsky, Wagner,Verdi Literature, Other musical movements Berlioz, creator of modern symphony orchestra Symphonies—changed from classical, longer The solo performer—violinists, pianists Themes were long and lyrical Waltzes and other popular dance music
- 9. Romanticism Painting concept that expresses Emotion
- 10. John Constable Edge of a Wood 1801
- 11. Horace Vernet Battle of Pirates, Sunrise 1818
- 12. Thomas Cole, 1839, Italian Landscape Hudson River School
- 13. Francisco Goya 1823 Saturn Devouring His Son
- 14. J.M.W. Turner, 1840, Slave Ship
- 15. Albert Bierstadt, 1863, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
- 16. Winslow Homer, 1876, Cotton Pickers Now we are into REALISM
- 17. The Stone-Breakers, oil on canvas by Gustave Courbet, 1849–50
- 18. Impressionism - interested in the effects of color -based on observation, not interested in politics or religion -"art for art's sake" -used broken color, rather than flat Starry Night 1889 Vincent Van Gogh
- 19. Painted by Claude Monet