Arts in the Industrial Age

1. Arts in the Industrial Age Chapter 9, Section 4

2. Objectives • Understand what themes shaped romantic art, literature, and music. • Explain how realists responded to the industrialized, urban world. • Describe how the visual arts changed.

3. Romanticism • Artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion. • Turns against order, harmony, reason, and emotional restraint. • Included simple direct language, intense feelings, and a glorification of nature. • Seen in art, music, architecture and literature.

4. romanticism • Hero: mysterious, melancholy figure who felt out of step with society; moody, isolated; often hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Exs: Byron, Goethe, Bronte • Writers combined history, legend and folklore. Exs: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo • Architects used ideas from medieval Gothic styles. • Musicians tried to stir emotions. Some wove traditional folk melodies into their works. Exs: Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin

5. Romanticism • Landscape painters sought to capture beauty and power of nature. • Simple subjects: peasant life, bright colors • Exs: J.M.W. Turner, Delacroix

9. Realism • Mid-1800s • Attempt to represent the world as it was, without sentimentality; often focused on the harsh side of life in cities or villages • Literature examples: Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola • Drama: plays written about the plight of society. Ex: Henrik Ibsen • Art: focused on ordinary subjects and people

13. Impressionism • Photography started in the 1840s with Louis Daguerre. Art no longer needed to be realistic. • Artists tried for the impression made by a scene of object on the viewer’s eye. • Started in Paris • No blending of brushstrokes. The human eye would do this automatically. • Sometimes painted same subject at different times of day for different lighting.

17. Postimpressionism • Georges Seurat: Pointillism • Vincent Van Gogh: sharp brush lines and bright colors • Paul Gauguin: flat people, primitive