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What is the Appeal of Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, and other supernatural creatures in books, movies, and TV?.

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  1. What is the Appeal of Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, and other supernatural creatures in books, movies, and TV?

  2. Romanticism – Artistic movement of the 18th and 19th Centuries that emphasized emotions and feelings over reason and science, partly as a reaction against the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution. Irrational- to be without reason. Macabre- To be preoccupied or to think often on death. Gothic- Having to do with the middle ages. Vocabulary:

  3. ROMANTICISM: A Response to the Englightenment

  4. Characteristics of Romanticism • The Engaged & Enraged Artist • The artist must be separate from from corrupting society. • The artist must be the Critic of society, must start Revolution. • The artist as genius.

  5. Characteristics of Romanticism • Glorification of Nature: • Peaceful, restorative qualities that can provide an escape from the cities and work. • Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of nature. • Uncaring of the fate of humans. • Overwhelming power of nature.

  6. Characteristics of Romanticism • The Supernatural: • Ghosts, fairies, witches, demons, Oh My! • The shadows of the mind—dreams & madness. • A reaction to rationalism [an escape from reason!]

  7. Characteristics of Romanticism • Exoticism: • Things that are different are more interesting. • A sense of escape from reality. • The desire to acquire that which is new and different • Revival of Past Styles: • Gothic & Romanesque revival.

  8. 5. Nationalism Pride in your nation over other nations Interest in your folklore, music and language Focus on being part of a country rather than part of Europe Characteristics of Romanticism

  9. Early19c TheEnlightenment Romanticism Civilization corrupts;institutions increase corruption! Society is good, curbing violent impulses!

  10. The New Romantics Paint what they Feel, and what they Believe…

  11. 1. Emotions! Passion! Irrationality! Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794

  12. 2. Nationalism

  13. Greece on the Ruins of MissolonghiEugène Delacroix, 1827

  14. Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830

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

  16. 3. The "Rugged" Individual

  17. Wandering Above the Sea of FogCaspar David Friedrich,1818

  18. The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835

  19. 4. The Power & Fury of Nature

  20. An Avalanche in the AlpsPhilip James de Loutherbourg, 1803

  21. The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

  22. The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819

  23. 5. Science Can Be Dangerous!

  24. Theodore Von HolstFrontispiece to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831

  25. 6. Romanticizing Country Life

  26. The Corn FieldJohn Constable,1826

  27. The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821

  28. 7. The Gothic: "Romanticizing" the Middle Ages

  29. Salisbury Cathedral from the MeadowsJohn Constable, 1831

  30. Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David Friedrich, 1811

  31. British Houses of Parliament1840-1865

  32. 8. The Exotic, the Occult, and the Macabre!

  33. Man and Woman Contemplating the MoonGaspar David Friedrich, 1825

  34. Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David Friedrich, 1817-1819

  35. Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841

  36. Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781

  37. Saturn DevoursHis SonFrancisco Goya,1819-1823

  38. 9. Interest in Exotic Foreign Lands

  39. The Fanatics of TangiersEugène Delacroix, 1837-1838

  40. The Sultan of Morocco and His EntourageEugène Delacroix, 1845

  41. The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash, 1815-1823

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