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 Mysterious, different/outcast, date-with-destiny type heroes

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

Get Real A new artistic movement: realism Famous Realists: Represent the world as it was, 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

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?

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

Now you tell me which….