1. Romanticism vs. Realism

2. Romanticism
Reaction against Enlightenment, b/c led to revolutions, wars & death
Turned away from reason to emotion
Away from society to nature

3. Elements of Romanticism
Feelings, emotions & imagination
Mysterious, exotic
Grotesque, horrifying
Looked to past as simpler, better time
Glorified heroes
Untamed beauty
Common ppl
Promoted change & democracy

4. Illustration From “Aesop’s Fables”

5. Realism Mid 1800s cities started to grow/ industrialization began
Ppl began to look at the dreams of the romantics as pointless
New movement tried to show life like it really was

6. Elements of Realism Descriptions of working class, esp. suffering
Showed life of actual ppl as they were
Photographs
Describe struggles for power & wealth
Precise details so you can “experience”

7. “The Winnowers” By Gustave Courbet

8. Impressionism Group of painters in 1860s reacted against realism
Tried to show impression of a subject for a moment in time, not life as it really was
Used light & shimmering colors to capture a moment
More positive view of ppl than realists

9. “Sunrise” by Claude Monet

10. Little Red Cap
Listen to the story and predict whether it is realist or romantic and why

11. “The Stone Breakers” by Gustave Courbet

12. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Listen to the excerpt and predict whether it is realist or romantic and why

13. “The Lion Hunt” by Eugene Delacroix

14. “Orchard in Bloom” by Camille Pissarro