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Arts in the Industrial Age. I can compare Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. Romanticism. Was a reaction to the political and social times, Emotion over Reason, Senses over Intellect Didn’t reject reason, just believed in the importance of emotion too.
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Arts in the Industrial Age I can compare Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism
Romanticism • Was a reaction to the political and social times, Emotion over Reason, Senses over Intellect • Didn’t reject reason, just believed in the importance of emotion too. • Key idea: each individual has a unique personality from birth. • Key descriptors: Imagination, Freedom, Mystery, Exotic, Nature, Inner Struggles
Realism • An attempt to portray life exactly as it was without sentiment • Common everyday world was purest source of inspiration • Often focused on harsh realities of the Industrial era
Thomas Eakins’s 1875 painting The Gross Clinic – medical students learning by performing autopsies
Impressionism • Reaction to development of photography • Its aim was to SUGGEST rather than DESCRIBE • Reflected the chaos of the Industrial era • Impressionists rejected studios in favor of the countryside.