2. Romanticism…… Truth could and should
be found through
A big contrast to feelings and emotion.
Neoclassicism: Not just reason alone.
Art based on reason.
Sound familiar?
People wanted to find the
truth.
And reason was the way to Thus:
find truth.
And then it changed…. The foundation for
It was a challenge to the art, music, and literature
Enlightenment's notion of was now
rationality. emotion, drama, imaginat
ion, adventure.
4. 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.
5. Romanticism Continued
About the identity and the self
Lots of enthusiasm for the:
strange. Remote. Solitary.
Mysterious. Primitive.
Exotic. Dreams. Nightmares.
Magic. intuition.
awe. Escapism.
6. Spain and France
Francisco Goya, The Sleep of
William Blake, Ancient of Days
Reason Produces Monsters
9. Saturn is associated with
time. Maybe Goya is upset Theodore Gericault,
over the passage of time. Insane Woman
Goya, Saturn Devouring One
of His Children
10. 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
20. Realism
• Looking at everyday people doing
everyday, ordinary things.
• Conveying the dismal life.
• No need for romantic heroes or dramatic
scenes.
Philosophical movement at that time. They were the rationalists.
Express erotic fantasies through vivid imagination. The Incubus, preying on sleeping women. Human sub-consciousness. Nightmare. “mare” “Mara” spirit in North European mythology known to torment and suffocate people in their sleep.
Poetry speaks to the soul
Michelangeloesque painting. Classical anatomy merges with inner dark dreams. “When he set a compass upon the face of the deep” Proverbs 8:27. Blake used this painting in his book, Europe: A Prophesy. Wisdom---TRUTH. GOYA- Depicted asleep with threatening creatures. Unleashing of imagination, emotion, and nightmares.
Lots of emotion and expression. French invasion. Anonymous murderous French soldiers executing unarmed Spanish peasants. Horrified expressions. Has a cruciform gestures- symbol of Christ here.Lots of darks and lights. Men about to be executed. Bloody Bodies and dead people. Resistance and patriotism.
Saturn in Greek is Kronos, which is similar to the word for time.
Freedom, passion, endless pursuit of the unattainable.
Heroic and epic like Neoclassicism, yet dramatic, complex, and emotional like Romanticism.
