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ROMANTICISM

ROMANTICISM. Faust. Faustian Desire: - Striving for something beyond reach - Seeking experience and feeling. Nature as a source of creativity, solace, and vitality. Two images of nature. The macrocosm. Goethe’s own illustration of the Earth Spirit. Classical vs. Gothic.

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ROMANTICISM

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  1. ROMANTICISM Faust

  2. Faustian Desire: - Striving for something beyond reach - Seeking experience and feeling

  3. Nature as a source of creativity, solace, and vitality

  4. Two images of nature The macrocosm Goethe’s own illustration of the Earth Spirit

  5. Classical vs. Gothic

  6. Cloister Graveyard in the Snow, Caspar David Friedrich, 1810. 47” X 70”

  7. Some characteristics • Interest in mysticism • Individualism • Idealization of rural life • Enthusiasm for wild, irregular, or grotesque • Enthusiasm for “uncivilized” or natural • Imagination over reason • Reaction against whatever characterized Neoclassicism

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