1. 19th Century Art Movements
Reactions to changing
Industrial World

2. Romanticism ( mid 1800's)
Literary, Musical & Artistic reaction against Industrial Revolution, Enlightenment & Scientific Rev.
Appeal to emotion rather than reason
Artists aimed to capture beauty/force of nature
Musicians used crescendos (swelling of notes) to gain emotional response from audience
Beethoven’s 9th symphony - “Ode to Joy”

3. “Liberty Leading the People” Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

4. Executions on the Third of May Francisco de Goya - 1808,

5. “The Hay Wain” John Constable

6. Realism (mid 1800's) Reaction against Romanticism
Attempted to depict the world as it was - ordinary people doing ordinary things
Emphasized harshness of new industrial society
Realists saw themselves as social commentators trying to bring about change

7. “The Stone Breakers” Gustav Courbet

8. “The Gleaners” Jean-Francois Millet

9. “The Widower” Sir Luke Fildes

10. Impressionism (1870's-1900's)
Reaction to realism and emergence of photography
Artists sought to capture the fleeting impression of a first glance of a scene/object
Photographs create a lasting image, capture a moment that is to last forever
Impressionists wanted to capture fleeting moments, something that is gone as soon as it arrives

11. “Impression: Sunrise” Claude Monet(1872)

12. The Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh (1889)

13. “Two Sisters”