Arts in the Industrial Age Chapter 9, Section 4

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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