Changing Patterns in the Arts A reflection of the social and economic conditions God wants us to know history - Psalm 78

Romanticism John Keats – “Ode on a Grecian Urn” THOU still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Realism Charles Dickens – “Hard Times” In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gasses were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man’s purpose and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death.

Painting realism and romanticism impressionists (Monet)

Painting cont’d post-impressionist (Van Gogh)

Architecture Classical

Architecture Gothic

Architecture Steel

Music Romanticism (Beethoven) Impressionist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBLdMySuaEg