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Art and Culture

Life in the Industrial Age. Art and Culture. Romance vs. Reason. What is Romanticism? Shaped arts, culture and society in the West Turning away from logic and reason , using imagination , emotion , freedom Using direct language, intense emotion A new kind of hero

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Art and Culture

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  1. Life in the Industrial Age Art and Culture

  2. Romance vs. Reason • What is Romanticism? • Shaped arts, culture and society in the West • Turning away from logic and reason, using imagination, emotion, freedom • Using direct language, intense emotion • A new kind of hero • Mysterious, different/outcast, date-with-destiny type heroes

  3. Who’s a Romantic? • Famous Romantics: • Lord Byron • Wrote of love, war, passion, loss, grief • Johann van Goethe – Faust • Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers • Ludwig von Beethoven – Orchestra/Symphonies • Using emotion, beauty, power of nature

  4. Get Real • A newartistic movement: realism • Represent the worldasitwas, without making it sound grand/adventurous • Focused on harsh realities of cities/poor • Famous Realists: • Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist • Victor Hugo – Les Miserables • Henrik Ibsen – Drama/Stage • Brought attention the realities of life to everyone

  5. More Art Forms • Photography emerges • Begin by taking family photos of upper class • Eventually documented grim realities of life • Pics of the Civil War, slums, factory labor • Photography challenges artists to try new things • Why paint something if you can just take a picture?

  6. Impressionists • Impressionism – capturing the first fleeting moment, or impression of something • Used to hide brush strokes, but now made them visible • Fresh view of familiar subjects • Famous Impressionists: • Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Renoir, Pissaro • Post Impressionists- • Georges Seurat, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh

  7. Now you tell me which….

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