Revolution in the Arts

Romanticism A movement in which the artist emphasizes human emotion and imagination over reason Inspired by Rousseau – people were naturally good and only needed to be free Did not like what they saw in the Industrial Revolution – machines, factories, pollution, ugliness They glorified nature

Romantic Painters Wanted to stir emotions, not intellect Portrayed strong, exotic subjects in dramatic and colorful ways

Girl by the Fjord Hans Dahl

Liberty Leading the People Eugene Delacroix

Napoleon on the Throne Ingres

Romantic Music Fused music with imaginative literature - Opera Meant to stir emotions Ludwig van Beethoven Peter Tchaikovshy Federic Chopan Antonin Dvorak

Romantic Literature Stirs emotion and imagination Most popular author’s were from France - Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers - Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserable Great Britain - Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe, The Talisman - William Blake – Songs of the Innocence, Songs of the Experience – about the Industrial Revolution

Realism Wanted to portray life in a realistic manner “Painting…does not consist of anything but the presentation of real and concrete things.” - Gustave Courbet

Burial at Ornans Gustave Courber

Third Class Honore Daumier

American Gothic Grant Wood, 1933

Realist Literature Honore de Balzac – 90 novels and short stories of French life in the 1800’s - collection called The Human Comedy - frank description of greed and stupidity in the growing middle class Charles Dickens – Hard Times – spoke out for the poor and the awful conditions in prisons and hospitals in London

Realist Literature Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace – five families through the stages of life – historical novel about Napoleons invasion of Russia in 1812 Theodore Dreiser (American) – An American Tragedy – a young man was executed for killing his pregnant girlfriend – the man is the victim due to circumstances that he has no control over

Symbolism Many found the realities of industrial Europe ugly and brutal Symbolism = escape Gives impressions by suggestion rather than by direct statements Spread throughout the arts and to other countries Intellectuals liked this Average people found this difficult to understand

Impressionism Threw out the old rules Painted outside Fascinated by color and light Wanted to capture the momentary impression the subject made on their senses

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Claude Monet

Post-impressionism Wanted to create their own independent styles “I do not want to reproduce nature, I want to recreate it.” - Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne

Georges Surat

Paul Gauguin

Vincent van Gogh

Closure Describe the 5 movements in art. List at least two artists from each movement. What do paintings, music, and literature all have in common?