1. Romanticism and Other Artistic Styles
Mr. Meester
World History
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2. Vocabulary
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism

3. What is Romanticism?
Romanticism is an artistic movement that is based on emotion not reason.
It’s a reaction to the Enlightenment’s need for logic and reason.
Romantics felt the best things about being human were passion and emotion.
Romantic artists tried to achieve an emotional response with their art.
Tended to dislike Industrialization

4. Romantic Literature
It was a common for romantic writers to combine history, legend, and folklore.
The Three Musketeers
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Architecture would also be influenced.

5. Romantic Music
Romantic composers tried to stir deep emotional responses.
They were some of the 1st composers to utilize the full range of instruments.
They would also use traditional folk songs to glorify their nations.
Nationalism
Ludwig van Beethoven & Peter Tchaikovsky were Romantics.

6. Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

7. Romantic Art
Romantic Artist tended to break free from the highly structured art of the Enlightenment.
Tried to achieve an emotional response
They too used history as a basis for many of their pieces.
Humans were often small and not the main focus of the work of art.

8. Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
Back facing the viewer
Indistinct
Fairy tale like

9. Liberty Leading the Revolution
Eugene Delacroix
Historical
Nationalistic

10. Winter Landscape
Caspar David Friedrich
Medieval Castle
No people

11. The Call to Realism
The harshness of the I.R. caused dislike of Romanticism.
The Realists emerged and focused on the good but also the harsh realities of life in art and literature.
Charles Dickens was well known for writing about the harsh realities of the French and Industrial Revolutions.

12. Madame X
John Sargent 1884
Typical style of the era
Realistic detail

13. A Burial at Omans Gustave Courbet 1851

14. Impressionism & Beyond
With the invention of photography realism becomes redundant.
Impressionists try to capture the 1st fleeting impression of a scene.
Postimpressionists used new techniques to achieve intense feelings.
The Water Lily Pond
Claude Monet

15. Impression Sunrise Claude Monet 1874

16. Sunday Afternoon Georges-Pierre Seurat 1884