Romanticism

Roughly1750-1850Flourished1800-1840

Romanticism……A big contrast to

Neoclassicism:Art based on reason.People wanted to find the truth. And reason was the way to find truth.And then it changed….It was a challenge to the Enlightenment's notion of rationality.

Truth could and should be found through

feelings and emotion. Not just reason alone.

Sound familiar?

Thus:The foundation for art,

music, and literature was now emotion, drama,

imagination, adventure.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare

Romanticism•Imagination is crucial. •Focuses on erotic pleasures. •High Drama•Movement•Bringing dreams and nightmares to the surface. •Idea that science was cold and alienated people•Poetry was the valued literature.

Romanticism Continued

About the identity and the selfLots of enthusiasm for the:

strange. Remote.

Solitary. Mysterious. Primitive.

Exotic. Dreams. Nightmares. Magic.

intuition. awe. Escapism.

Spain and France

William Blake, Ancient of Days Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Goya, Family of Charles IV

Goya, Third of May, 1814

Saturn is associated with time. Maybe Goya is

upset over the passage of time.

Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children

Theodore Gericault, Insane Woman

Let’s compare this to the music at the time…..

Compare Bach’s cello suite of the classical era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwHpDOWhkGk to the French Composer, Saint Saen’s The Swan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbXuFBjncw

Wagner- German Composer Die Walküre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKAH_t0aXA

Beethoven-German Composer and pianist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79gzdskOGu4

Theodorre Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-1819

Eugene Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus

Landscape Painting and Realism

Realism started to take place. Reaction to Romanticism.

Due to scientific evolution.

Darwin

• Origin of the Species• Organic Evolution• Natural Selection

• Look at the world the way it should be viewed, Realistically.

Casper David FriedrichAbby in the Oak Forest

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Slave Ship

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow

Comparing LiteratureFrankenstein, Mary Shelley 1818 Charles Dickens

Realism

• Looking at everyday people doing everyday, ordinary things.

• Conveying the dismal life. • No need for romantic heroes or dramatic

scenes.

The Stonebreakers, Courbet