Romanticism

1. Romanticism A movement in Art and Literature 1800-1860

3. Characterized by 5 Points • Nature • Emotion • Individual • Imagination • Idealism

4. Nature • Seek Harmony with Nature and experience the Supernatural • A celebration of untamed nature • Inspired Creator rather than technical master • Moving away from corruption, limits, and civilization

5. Emotion • Intuition is more important than logic • Emotions are valued over reason • It is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” Wordsworth

6. Individual • Man is the center of the universe • A desire to express and find one’s own self • Perfectibility of man and ultimately society

7. Imagination • Freedom of the mind is “in” • Reason is “out” • Every day versus the Exotic

8. Idealism • We can make the world a better place! • Emphasize the spirit, mind, and language over matter

9. Overview • It isn’t always defined by the “pretty”, which it can be • But, define by the grotesque, supernatural, absurd and odd • Individuality and Imagination take people to new places

10. Manifest Destiny • "expansion, prearranged by Heaven” • A future event accepted as • As a nation we were and still are constantly moving forward and outward and Manifest Destiny helps define this movement

11. Manifest Destiny