The Arts during the Industrial Age A New Culture: The Arts during the Industrial Age
Romanticism
The Romantic Revolt against Reason It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility -- William Wordsworth Complete Poetical Works
Romanticism 1750-1850 writers, artists, and composers rebelled against the Enlightenment (emphasized reason and progress) Romanticism glorified nature and sought to excite strong emotion Writers created the Romantic Hero – a character that was mysterious, a loner, hid a secret, but we love ‘em Use historic heroes/ideas/events
Claude Le Lorrain Widely known landscape romantic and illuminist. Represents nature as serene, harmonious, and often majestic. Harbour Scene (1634, Hermitage, St Petersburg) he shows the sun on the horizon, and characteristically uses the sun to give the painting depth.
Jacques Louis David
Romanticism
John Constable, The White Horse
Francisco Goya – The Shooting Napoleon’s troops excuted Spaniards
Washington Crossing the Brazos
Realism
A Call back to Realism Mid 1800s, started in the west Represent the world as it is No idealism, no rose colored glasses Artists focused on the harsh side of like in cities or villages Committed to exposing the conditions of people and trying to improve them. Slums, factories
Third Class Carriage
Impressionism
“Impressing” beginnings 1840 photography was invented so painting became less important. “Why try for realism when a photo can do much better?” Groups of painters went in a new direction Sought to capture the first fleeting impression made by a scene or object on the viewer’s eye. Began in Paris
Claude Monet – impressionist
Postimpressionism
Postimpressionists developed a variety of styles. George Seurat – small dots of color to define shapes Vincent Van Gogh – sharp brush lines and bright colors Paul Gaugin – sharp lines/flat people convey feeling and intensity
Paul Cezanne
Vincent van Gogh – Postimpressionist
Starry Night – one of the most famous painting by van Gogh
The Olive Branch
Define the following – Due today, test Friday Bessemer Process Alfred Nobel Thomas Edison Louis Pasteur Robert Koch Florence Nightingale Joseph Lister Natural Selection Darwinism Johann Wolfgang van Goethe Ludwig von Beethoven Charles Dickens