1. IV. Culture: Romanticism and Realism

2. Classicism in Europe was
roughly 1700 to 1800.
Madame Recamire, 1800,
by Jacques-Louis David
Mozart
The Madeleine Church, Paris, France.

3. A. Romanticism (1800’s) – the arts. expressed feeling, emotion, and
A. Romanticism (1800’s) – the arts expressed feeling, emotion, and imagination.
L'Education de la Vierge,
(1842), by Eugène
Delacroix,
Paris.
In the late 1700’s, Romanticists abandoned classical
reason (Enlightenment, 1700’s) for warmth and emotion
to revolt against the Industrial Revolution.

4. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,
(1818) by Caspar
David Friedrich.
Romanticism

5. The Lion Hunt (1861), Eugene Delacroix.
Romanticism painting with drama and action (exotic)

6. Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great North- Western Railway (1844),
by Joseph
Turner.
Romanticism

7. Memory of Civil
War (1850), by
Meissonier.
Romanticism

8. Low Tide at Pourville, by Claude Monet

9. Auguste
Renoir
( ),
Berlin
National
Museum.

10. Romantic architecture – Bavarian castle reflects the
romantic love for medieval style (built between ).

11. Romanticism in Literature
Sir Walter Scott’s
Ivanhoe was the
best selling novel in
the early 1800’s.
Mary Shelley’s gothic novel,
Frankenstein (1818) was a
vegetarian.

12. When my mother died I was very young,
The Chimney Sweeper
When my mother died I was very young,
Any my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry "'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!“
So your chimneys I sweep, & in soot I sleep.
- William Blake, 1794
I Wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
- William Wordsworth

13. “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators
This Living Hand
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calmed—see here it is— I hold it towards you.
John Keats, 1819
The cremation of Percy Shelley,
by Edward Trelawny.
The Keats-
Shelley
Museum in
Rome,
Italy.
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators
of the world.” Percy Bysshe Shelley

14. B. Realism – the world should be viewed realistically.
1. Started: early 1800’s in literature;
mid-1800’s in art.
Realists rejected Romanticism.

15. 2. Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
shows life in mid-1800’s England.
Dickens' Oliver
Twist (1838).
A Christmas Carol (1843), by Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, a British novelist, became very successful with his
realistic novels focusing on the middle and lower classes in Britain.

16. The Stone Breakers (1849), Gustave Courbet.
Realism

17. The Gleaners (1857), Jean-Francois Millet.
Realism