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Romanticism

Romanticism. A Movement of the 19 th Century and Beyond. Romanticism. A movement in literature, music and art A reaction to and against the structure and reason of the Enlightenment 4 Major Areas of Romanticism Emotion Individualism Nature Glorification of the Past. Emotion.

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism A Movement of the 19th Century and Beyond

  2. Romanticism • A movement in literature, music and art • A reaction to and against the structure and reason of the Enlightenment • 4 Major Areas of Romanticism • Emotion • Individualism • Nature • Glorification of the Past

  3. Emotion • Based on feeling; irrational feeling • Gothic Romance • Rejected Enlightenments balance and rationalism • Mystical, hysterical, passion of terrified heroes and heroines • Ex. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein • Love • First celebrated romantic love as natural right of every human

  4. INDIVIDUALISM • “Heroic Individualism” • Ex. Napoleon • Ex. Jean Valjean in Les Miserable's • One is can make himself capable to be and do anything. • Directly connected to the self-created success of middle class

  5. Nature • Celebration of the outdoors • Rooted in middle class Europeans interest in non-city life • Middle class longed for the purity and serene settings in the countryside • Ironic that nature is so prized during Industrial Revolution

  6. Glorification of the Past • Looked back to simpler times • Weight of classical world (past and modern) too heavy • Why? How so? • Medievalism • 12th -14th centuries • Simpler lives • Good vs. Evil • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table • Robin Hood

  7. Romantic Art

  8. Romantic Poetry My Soul is Dark My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear; And let thy gentle fingers fling Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear. If in this heart a hope be dear, That sound shall charm it forth again:   If in these eyes there lurk a tear, 'Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain. -Lord Byron To Nature It may indeed be phantasy, when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ; And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie Lessons of love and earnest piety. So let it be ; and if the wide world rings In mock of this belief, it brings Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  9. SHIFT TO REALISM • Some felt the need to move back to reality • Realism focuses on life as it is, NOT as it should be • REALISTIC not idealistic Movement in politics, art and literature • Reaction to stresses and realities of industrialization

  10. Daguerrotypes • Daguerrotypes- first photographs- true reality

  11. Realism in Art

  12. Impressionism • Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting • they emphasized vivid overall effects rather than details • artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it • How is this an extension of realism?

  13. Impressionist Art Monet, Renoir, Dega---famous Impressionist Artists

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