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Romanticism
Roughly1750-1850Flourished1800-1840
Romanticism……A big contrast to
Neoclassicism:Art based on reason.People wanted to find the truth. And reason was the way to find truth.And then it changed….It was a challenge to the Enlightenment's notion of rationality.
Truth could and should be found through
feelings and emotion. Not just reason alone.
Sound familiar?
Thus:The foundation for art,
music, and literature was now emotion, drama,
imagination, adventure.
Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare
Romanticism•Imagination is crucial. •Focuses on erotic pleasures. •High Drama•Movement•Bringing dreams and nightmares to the surface. •Idea that science was cold and alienated people•Poetry was the valued literature.
Romanticism Continued
About the identity and the selfLots of enthusiasm for the:
strange. Remote.
Solitary. Mysterious. Primitive.
Exotic. Dreams. Nightmares. Magic.
intuition. awe. Escapism.
Spain and France
William Blake, Ancient of Days Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Goya, Family of Charles IV
Goya, Third of May, 1814
Saturn is associated with time. Maybe Goya is
upset over the passage of time.
Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children
Theodore Gericault, Insane Woman
Let’s compare this to the music at the time…..
Compare Bach’s cello suite of the classical era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHpDOWhkGk to the French Composer, Saint Saen’s The Swan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbXuFBjncw
Wagner- German Composer Die Walküre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKAH_t0aXA
Beethoven-German Composer and pianist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79gzdskOGu4
Theodorre Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819
Eugene Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus
Eugene Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus
Landscape Painting and Realism
Realism started to take place. Reaction to Romanticism.
Due to scientific evolution.
Darwin
• Origin of the Species• Organic Evolution• Natural Selection
• Look at the world the way it should be viewed, Realistically.
Casper David FriedrichAbby in the Oak Forest
Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Slave Ship
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow
Comparing LiteratureFrankenstein, Mary Shelley 1818 Charles Dickens
Realism
• Looking at everyday people doing everyday, ordinary things.
• Conveying the dismal life. • No need for romantic heroes or dramatic
scenes.
The Stonebreakers, Courbet