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The Age of Petipa Part 2: The 19 th Century World. Art in context . All art is an expressive form of communication. The artist is inevitably influenced by his/her surroundings and life experiences.
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Art in context • All art is an expressive form of communication. • The artist is inevitably influenced by his/her surroundings and life experiences. • Having context for a work or style of works can provide greater understanding of and appreciation for that work.
A changing world… • From 1800- 1900 (Petipa lived 1818- 1910) • Political, economic and social structures were changing dramatically: • Around the world revolutions changed the faces of government • European imperialism began to lose it’s stronghold • Industrialization led to urbanization and the rise of a middle class
Terrible working conditions:OvercrowdedLong hours, including Saturday and SundayChildren worked in factoriesDangerous and unsanitary conditionsLow wages
Industrialization leads to changes in social order • Growth of cities • Rise of a middle class • Unions to protect workers rights • Child labor laws • Middle class turns to arts to : • Escape from day to day routine • Experience lifestyle of the upper class
Revolutionary conditions • The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era (1789-1815) was ended by an anti-Napoleonic coalition of Dynastic states who authorized the restoration of "legitimate" rulers who had been displaced from their thrones and also authorized a suppression of liberalism, constitutionalism, and nationalism in order to ensure the continued political authority of dynastic government.
Conditions aggravated by: • Poor economic conditions • Bad grain harvests • Blight, particularly in potatoes • Rise in food prices • Rise in unemployment • Moving to cities or other countries in search of opportunities
Revolutions of 1848 • French Revolution • “Italian” Revolution • Völkerfrühling(Springtime of Peoples)Revolution in the German lands
19th Century United States:Industrialization and Innovation • 1808- Congress prohibits the African slave trade. • 1814- Francis Cabot Lowell opens the first U.S. factory able to convert raw cotton into cloth using power machinery. • 1814- Lawyer Francis Scott Key, detained on a British warship, writes "The Star-Spangled Banner” • 1821- Emma Hart Willard opens the Troy Female Seminary, the first institution in the United States to offer a high school education for girls.
1807- Robert Fulton sails his steamship the Clermont on the Hudson River, inaugurating a new era of steam-powered transportation.
1823- Monroe Doctrine: President James Monroe declares the Western Hemisphere is closed to further European colonization and threatens to use force to stop European interventions in the Americas. • 1827-Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm publish the first African American newspapers, Freedom’s Journal. • 1834- The first coeducational college in the United States, Oberlin, opens, with a class of 29 men and 15 women. In 1835, Oberlin became the first college to admit African Americans. • 1844-Samuel F.B. Morse sends the first message by telegraph
1848- Alexander T. Stewart opens the first department store on Broadway in New York.
1857- Elisha Otis installs the first passenger elevator in a New York department store.
1848- New York State grants married women the right to own property apart from their husbands. • 1861-1865 Civil War • 1863- President Lincoln declares last Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day. • 1865- The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolishes slavery. • 1867- "Seward's Icebox." Russia sells Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million, or less than 2 cents an acre. • 1869- Transcontinental railroad is completed.
1876- 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
1886- President Grover Cleveland unveils the Statue of Liberty. • 1891-James Naismith, a p.e. instructor at the YMCA Training College in Springfield, Mass., invents basketball. • 1899- The Literary Digest writes: "The ordinary horseless carriage is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle."
US Presidents during Petipa’s lifetime • 6. John Quincy Adams18. Ulysses S. Grant • 7. Andrew Jackson19. Rutherford B. Hayes • 8. Martin Van Buren20. James Garfield • 9. William Henry Harrison21. Chester A. Arthur • 10. John Tyler22. Grover Cleveland • 11. James K. Polk23. Benjamin Harrison • 12. Zachary Taylor24. Grover Cleveland • 13. Millard Fillmore25. William McKinley • 14. Franklin Pierce26. Theodore Roosevelt • 15. James Buchanan • 16. Abraham Lincoln • 17. Andrew Johnson
Cool inventions of 19th century • Gas lighting tin can • Raincoat plastic • Toy balloon washing machine • Matches traffic lights • Typewriter moving pictures • Sewing machine perforated toilet paper • Wrench Coca-cola • Bicycle contact lenses • Stapler roller coaster • Anesthesia (for tooth extraction) zipper
Changes in social and political structures are reflected in arts. • New inventions impact developments in arts.
Visual artists of 19th century • Delacroix • Goya • Renoir • Degas • Toulouse-Lautrec • Monet • Seurat • Rousseau • 1870s First Impressionist Art Exhibit
Music and musicians • Romanticism is emphasized in compositions • Turn of century, Beethoven begins trend of larger scale works for larger audiences • Compositions for larger orchestra, more opportunities for professional musicians • Famous composers include: • Tchaikovsky --Brahms --Debussy • Berlioz --Delibes --Grieg • Chopin --Wagner --Ravel
Authors and literature • Famous authors include: • Byron, Shelley, Keats, Whitman, Marx, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Zola, Alexander Dumas (pere & fils), Oscar Wilde, • 1813 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice • 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin. (When Stowe met President Lincoln, he reportedly asked her: "Is this the little woman whose book made such a great war?”) • 1864- Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland • 1894- Kipling The Jungle Book
Theaters and playwrights • Covent Garden Opera House (rebuilt twice) • Paris Opera House • Mariinsky theatre renovated • Goethe’s Faust (premieres 1828) • Ibsen