Artistic and Literary Movements Of the 17 th , 18 th , and early 19 th Centuries

Romanticism Artwork Based on Emotion

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

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

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)

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)

Literature continued: An attraction to the bizarre & unusual (science fiction?) Mary Shelley; Victor Hugo – What did They write?

Literature continued:

An attraction to the bizarre & unusual (science fiction?)

Mary Shelley; Victor Hugo – What did They write?

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)

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)

Music Music: Individualism The piano sonata becomes popular: Franz Liszt Wagner – emphasizes Germanic mythology “ ride of the valkeries”

Music: Individualism

The piano sonata becomes popular: Franz Liszt

Wagner – emphasizes Germanic mythology

“ ride of the valkeries”

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

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

Romanticism Painting concept that expresses Emotion

John Constable Edge of a Wood 1801

Horace Vernet Battle of Pirates, Sunrise 1818

Thomas Cole, 1839, Italian Landscape Hudson River School

Francisco Goya 1823 Saturn Devouring His Son

J.M.W. Turner, 1840, Slave Ship

Albert Bierstadt, 1863, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak

Winslow Homer, 1876, Cotton Pickers Now we are into REALISM

The Stone-Breakers, oil on canvas by Gustave Courbet, 1849–50

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

Painted by Claude Monet