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Revolution in the Arts. Chapter 24 Section 4. Key Terms. Romanticism Realism Impressionism. The Romantic Movement. 1800’s Enlightenment ideas reason in art Romanticism-reflected a deep interest in nature and in thought of feelings of the individual
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Revolution in the Arts Chapter 24 Section 4
Key Terms • Romanticism • Realism • Impressionism
The Romantic Movement • 1800’s Enlightenment ideas reason in art • Romanticism-reflected a deep interest in nature and in thought of feelings of the individual • Writers reacted against Enlightenment ideas
The Ideas or Romanticism • Emotion or wild emotion was a key element • Artistic thinkers shared these beliefs • Emphasized inner feelings, emotions, imagination • Focused on the mysterious, supernatural, exotic, grotesque, or horrifying • Loved the beauties of untamed nature
The Ideas of Romanticism • Idealized the past as a simpler and nobler time • Glorified heroes and heroic actions • Cherished folk traditions, music and stories • Value the common people and the individual • Promoted radical change in democracy
Romanticism in Literature • Poetry, music and painting the most influential arts • Romantics- poetry was the highest form of expression • William Wordsworth, John Keats
Romanticism in Literature • Germany produced one of the earliest writers John Wolfgang von Goethe • Wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther • Young mans love drives him to suicide
The Gothic Novel • Gothic horror stories • Took place in medieval castles • Fearful, violent and supernatural • Mary Shelley wrote a gothic horror story Frankenstein • Monster created from body parts of human beings
Composers Emphasize Emotion • Emotion dominates music • Celebrated heroism and national pride with new power of expression • Music became part of middle class life • Fran Liszt (pianist) earnings and popularity like present day rock star
Composers Emphasize Emotion • Greatest romantic composer Ludwig van Beethoven • Evolved from classical music into romantic compositions • Ninth symphony soars, celebrating freedom, dignity, and triumph of the human spirit
Composers Emphasize Emotion • Romantic composers appealed to heart and souls of their listeners • Felix Mendelssohn-drew on literature (Shakespeare’s Mid Summers Night Dream • Frederic Chopin used Polish dance rhythms
The Shift to Realism in the Arts • 19th century industrialization affected everyday life • Industrial workers lived grim lives in dirty cities • Realism-tried to show life as it was, not as it should be • Realist painters showed the political importance of the working class
Photographers Capture Reality • Could record an instant in time • First photographs called daguerreotypes (Louis Daguerre) • Images startling real and won world wide fame
Photographers • William Talbot invented light sensitive paper to produce photographic negatives • Advantage of paper is that many prints could be made of one image • Talbot’s process allowed photos to be reproduce in newspapers and magazines • Photography an art of the industrial age
Writers Study society • Realism flourished in France • Honore de Balzac wrote 100 novels entitled The Human Comedy • Brutal struggle for wealth in French society • Emile Zola exposed the miseries of French workers in small shops, factories, and coal mine
Writers in Society • His revelations shocked readers • Spurred reforms and labor laws • Charles Dickens created unforgettable characters of London’s poor • Life of a working class person as sheer monotony set in a gloomy neighborhood
Impressionists React Against Realism • 1860’s painters react against realist style • Tried to show their best impression instead of how “life really was” • Impressionism- try to show their impression of a subject or a moment in time • Fascinated by light, used shimmering colors to capture a moment seen at a glance
Life in the Moment • Impressionists showed a more positive view • Instead of abused workers they showed shop clerks, dock workers enjoying themselves • Dance halls • Cafes
Life in the Moment • Painted performers in theatres and circuses • Glorified delights of life in rising middle class • Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir- were leaders in the movement that became very popular
Life in the Moment • Composers created impressions of mood and atmosphere • Used different combinations of instruments, tone patterns, and music structures • Able to create mental pictures of flashing lights, feel of warm day
Life in the Moment • Maurice Revel and Claude Debussy most notable members of the impressionist music movement • Changes in political, social and artistic and intellectual movement signaled important changes in daily life • One of the most significant will be industrialization