1. Arts in the Industrial Age I can compare Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism

2. Romanticism  Was a reaction to the political and social times, Emotion over Reason, Senses over Intellect  Didn’t reject reason, just believed in the importance of emotion too.  Key idea: each individual has a unique personality from birth.  Key descriptors: Imagination, Freedom, Mystery, Exotic, Nature, Inner Struggles

6. Realism  An attempt to portray life exactly as it was without sentiment  Common everyday world was purest source of inspiration  Often focused on harsh realities of the Industrial era

7. Thomas Eakins’s 1875 painting The Gross Clinic – medical students learning by performing autopsies

8. Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857

9. Honore Daumier, The Third-Class Carriage, 1862

10. Impressionism  Reaction to development of photography  Its aim was to SUGGEST rather than DESCRIBE  Reflected the chaos of the Industrial era  Impressionists rejected studios in favor of the countryside.

11. Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872

12. Monet, Saint Lazare Train Station, 1877

13. Edgar Degas, The Dancing Class

14. Monet, Rouen Cathedral