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Romanticism

Romanticism. Late 18th-Early 19th Centuries. Romanticism emerged as a reaction to the neo-classical style and emphasized emotion rather than reason.

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism

  2. Late 18th-Early 19th Centuries • Romanticism emerged as a reaction to the neo-classical style and emphasized emotion rather than reason. • Romantic artists & authors extolled the virtues of feeling and simple piety over the artifacts of learning & civilization. They especially liked nature. • Romantic artists/writers valued individualism, the power of the inner spirit, and heroic traits. • Influenced art, literature, religion and music • Key characteristics..

  3. 1. Primacy of Emotion

  4. The Dreamer Caspar David Friedrich, 1835

  5. 2. New view of Nature: • 1. Not a well-ordered machine, as Enlightened thinkers viewed it. • 2. Rather it was inspiring, beautiful, to be contemplated not mastered. • 3. Nature was overpowering to humans • 4. Humans were best inspired in nature; country life was to be enjoyed. Cities weren’t so great.

  6. The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

  7. Moonrise Over the Sea: Caspar David Friedrich, 1821

  8. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage--Italy, 1832, Joseph MW Turner

  9. Caspar David Friedrich--Chalk Cliffs on Rugen

  10. Friedrich--Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon

  11. 3. Distrust of Science and Technology

  12. Rain, Steam, and SpeedJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1844

  13. 4. Greece/Rome out; Medieval themes/gothic stuff in • 1. Mysteries, heroes, stories of the middle ages offered greater emotional appeal. • 2. Noe-gothic architecture

  14. Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825

  15. Winter Landscape with ChurchCaspar David Friedrich, 1811

  16. 5. The Exotic and the Macabre

  17. Saturn DevoursHis SonFrancisco Goya,1819-1823

  18. 6. Nationalism

  19. Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830

  20. The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815

  21. 7. Christian mysticism--interest in Catholicism

  22. The CathedralGaspar DavidFriedrich,1818

  23. 8. Fascination with the Exotic

  24. Eugene Delacroix--The Death of Sardanapalus

  25. Delacroix--Women in Algiers in Their Apartment

  26. Romantic Writers/Novelists

  27. Goethe--The Sorrow of Young Werther • 1. Individualism and emotions reign supreme.

  28. Stories of the past • Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson--Fairy tales of the past • Walter Scott--Ivanhoe--medieval English knights

  29. 1.Medieval English knights

  30. Gothic Literature • 1. Bizarre, chilling stories. • 2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (critique of science?) • 3. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

  31. Believed to be a direct expression of the soul • Poets could reveal the invisible world to others • Some themes: • Revolt against oppressive laws and customs (Percy Shelley--Prometheus Unbound) • Love of nature • William Wordsworth--nature was a mirror for humans to look to for information about themselves

  32. Critics of science • Wordsworth-- nature not a cold object of study. Alive and sacred • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein--the dangers of science

  33. Wordsworth--Tintern Abbey • If I should be, where I no more can hear • Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams • Of past existence, wilt thou then forget • That on the banks of this delightful stream • We stood together; and that I, so long • A worshipper of Nature, hither came, • Unwearied in that service: rather say • With warmer love, oh! with far deeper zeal • Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, • That after many wanderings, many years • Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, • And this green pastoral landscape, were to me • More dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.

  34. More Romantic Poetry • 1. Lord Byron--the “Byronic hero” as described in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. • 2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge--The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

  35. Ludwig Von Beethoven • Influenced by the French Revolution • Music a reflection of inner feelings • Studied under Haydn • Third Symphony intended for Napoleon • Beethoven the bridge from the classical era to the Romantic

  36. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

  37. Hector Berliozhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL8df-r2drM • Symphonie Fantastique • Emotion, mood, sound effects

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