1. Arts in the Industrial Age
Chapter 9, Section 4

2. Objectives
Understand what themes shaped romantic art, literature, and music.
Explain how realists responded to the industrialized, urban world.
Describe how the visual arts changed.

3. Romanticism
Artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion.
Turns against order, harmony, reason, and emotional restraint.
Included simple direct language, intense feelings, and a glorification of nature.
Seen in art, music, architecture and literature.

4. romanticism
Hero: mysterious, melancholy figure who felt out of step with society; moody, isolated; often hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Exs: Byron, Goethe, Bronte
Writers combined history, legend and folklore. Exs: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo
Architects used ideas from medieval Gothic styles.
Musicians tried to stir emotions. Some wove traditional folk melodies into their works. Exs: Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin

5. Romanticism
Landscape painters sought to capture beauty and power of nature.
Simple subjects: peasant life, bright colors
Exs: J.M.W. Turner, Delacroix

9. Realism
Mid-1800s
Attempt to represent the world as it was, without sentimentality; often focused on the harsh side of life in cities or villages
Literature examples: Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola
Drama: plays written about the plight of society. Ex: Henrik Ibsen
Art: focused on ordinary subjects and people

13. Impressionism
Photography started in the 1840s with Louis Daguerre. Art no longer needed to be realistic.
Artists tried for the impression made by a scene of object on the viewer’s eye.
Started in Paris
No blending of brushstrokes. The human eye would do this automatically.
Sometimes painted same subject at different times of day for different lighting.

17. Postimpressionism Georges Seurat: Pointillism
Vincent Van Gogh: sharp brush lines and bright colors
Paul Gauguin: flat people, primitive