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Age of Reason 1668-1789. Dress and Manner. Religion. Science. Age of Romantics Romanticism refers to a movement in art, literature, and music from 1790-1832 John Constable Sketch for Hadleigh Castle c.1828-9. Visual Arts: Examples. Romantic Art. Neoclassical Art.
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Age of RomanticsRomanticism refers to a movement in art, literature, and music from 1790-1832John Constable Sketch for Hadleigh Castle c.1828-9
Visual Arts: Examples Romantic Art Neoclassical Art
Romanticism is characterized by the 5 “I”s Idealism Intuition Imagination Inspiration Individuality
Intuition William Turner. Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - The Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis. 1843.
Imagination Joseph Turner – Steamer in Snowstorm (1842)
InspirationAbbey Under the Oak Tree by Caspar David Friedrich (1808 – 1810)
Individuality Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1817 1817
The Bard by John Martin (1817)1. Inspiration - beauty of the untamed, natural world - beauty in the rocks and the clouds. attractiveness of the pastoral life - bard lives off of the land2. Individuality - the bard is free to go wherever he wants, he is not confined by a path like the soldiers. The bard is an individual3. imagination - the bard has a harp and is a poet, standing for vision and imagination4. Intuition-emotion - consider the stance of the bard. He intuitively knows what is right.5. Idealism- the bard answers to no one, the horses near the water are rearing up against their rider’s authority Inspiration
Portrait of Byron in Albanian dress by Thomas Phillips, 1835
The Land of “Oz” Some Observations: • Paradox? • Secondary paradox?
Four Observations • Distance • Reflected in modern music/lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJMxhvVf0o&feature=PlayList&p=F71BE2F69313A378&index=6 3. The Emperor’s Club 4. The competition…
"On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below.” In Egypts sandy silence, all alone,Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows. "I am great Ozymandias," saith the stone, "The King of kings: this mighty city shows The wonders of my hand." The city's gone! Naught but the leg remaining to disclose The sight of that forgotten Babylon. We wonder, and some hunter may express Wonder like ours, when through the wilderness Where London stood, holding the wolf in chase, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What wonderful, but unrecorded, race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. - Horace Smith
This is perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Romantic Age: an admiration for all the potency and diversity of living nature superseded a concern for the discovery of its universal traits.