Arts in the Industrial Age

Industrial Society Review: What is Industrial Society like? Cities Working Life? Living Conditions? Art?

Coal factories produced a lot of pollution and changed the appearance of the landscape.

In cities, lots of people were living together In cities, lots of people were living together. Production, profit were the emphasis. The working class just worked to make enough money to survive.

Since the 1700s, throughout the Enlightenment, reason and scientific observation and discovery had changed the world. Governments had changed. And during the Industrial Revolution, economics, production and society had also changed. A response to this was Romanticism…

Romanticism Not referring to “romance” between people in a relationship Romanticism – An artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom and emotion. Writers, artists, composers, and architects were part of the Romantic Movement

Romantic Painting: Sierra Nevadas – Albert Bierstadt

Romantic Painting: “The Garand Canal, Venice…” – Richard Parkes Bonington (1826)

Romantic Art Movement Writers: William Wordsworth, William Blake, Lord Byron The Romantic Hero – “A mysterious, melancholy, person who feels out of step with society” – Doesn’t fit in with the new Industrial World…

Romantic Movement Lord Byron – “My Soul is Dark”                     My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string                         The harp I yet can brook to hear;                     And let thy gentle fingers fling                         Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear.                     If in this heart a hope be dear,                         That sound shall charm it forth again:                     If in these eyes there lurk a tear,                         'Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain.                     But bid the strain be wild and deep,                         Nor let thy notes of joy be first:                     I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep,                         Or else this heavy heart will burst;                     For it hath been by sorrow nursed,                         And ached in sleepless silence, long;                     And now 'tis doomed to know the worst,                         And break at once - or yield to song.

Romantic Movement Ludwig van Beethoven – Music German Composer; composed music to stir deep emotions (just as poetry was intended to); Beethoven was the first composer to fully use the broad range of instruments in a modern orchestra.

Realism In the mid-1800s, Realism was a movement to present the world “as it was,” without the Romantic emphasis of emotions and imagination.

Thomas Eakin – Gross Clinic (1875); Could have been a photograph…very realistic.

Jean-Francois Millet – “The Gleaners” (1857); Women working in the French Countryside. Could have been a photograph.

Realism Writers – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist – A novel that tells the story of a child surviving poverty, crime, and the mistreatment of children; His writing reflects what society is really like!

Realism Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens “The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven, and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.”

Impressionism 1870s – “An artistic movement intended to capture the first fleeting impression made by an object on the viewer’s eye.” Artists: Claude Monet Vincent van Gogh (“postimpressionist”)

Monet – Lillies, brush strokes are visible

Monet – Impression: Sunrise – Brush strokes are visible

Vincent van Gogh La Chamber de Van Gogh

Skull with a cigarette – Van Gogh

Starry Night – Van Gogh

What Art You Doing? Assignment: You will create a painting , drawing, or poem using one of the following three styles – Romanticism, Realism, Impressionist

What Art You Doing? 1. Provide a written description of what style you choose (Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism); refer to the textbook pages 217 -221 to review the styles (or your notes) 2. Come up with a title for your artwork/poem. 3. Provide a written explanation of what your artwork or poem is about (in addition to creating an actual painting/drawing or poem).