Notes Chapter 8-4 “Revolutions in the Arts”
The Romantic Movement: (Brought on by Nationalism) * The arts turned from reason to emotions * Focus on inner feelings, glorified heroes, * focused on the supernatural, odd, exotic, etc.
Romanticism in literature and Music: * Wuthering Heights, King Arthur, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein * Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, * Bring more of the music to the people * Musicians achieve celebrity and money of modern rock stars Beethoven’s 5th
Shift to Realism: (brought on by industrialization) * Show the way life was, not just as it should be * Daguerreotype (Camera) invented (encouraging realism) * Realistic books pointed out unfair labor practices and encouraged reform Civil war daguerreotype
Impressionists React Against Realism: * Move away from exact details and toward an inexact impression of a picture * Returned to more positive ideas and topics
Name This style of art Impressionism
Name This style of art Romanticism
Name This style of art Realism