Romanticism vs. Realism Romanticism – (1800-1860) an artistic movement in reaction to the despair of life during the Industrial Revolution. The Romantic period, which was an escape from despair, can be seen in visual art, music and literature. Romantics valued individual experiences, imagination, freedom and a break from normal expectations of ‘art’. Romanticism = idealistic, imaginative, implausible, supernatural, artificial, exotic, complex, unrealistic, dramatic and/or an escape from reality

Romanticism vs. Realism Realism- (1860-1915) was an artistic movement that tended to portray life as it was in reality. Realism is considered to be a response to Romanticism and focused on reality, particularly the unpleasant aspects of life. Realism = truthful, accurate, normal, unpleasant aspects of life, ordinary people, all classes of people, and/or focus on struggles of everyday life

Romanticism vs. Realism Romanticism: idealistic, imaginative, implausible, supernatural, artificial, exotic, complex, unrealistic, dramatic and/or an escape from reality Realism: truthful, normal, unpleasant aspects of life, ordinary people, all classes of people, and/or focus on struggles of everyday life Over the next several slides, you will be presented with examples or visual art, music and literature that is associated with either Romanticism or Realism. Can you tell the difference? Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800) Honoré Daumier’s The Third Class Wagon 1862–1864 Realism Romanticism

Romanticism vs. Realism Realism: truthful, normal, unpleasant aspects of life, ordinary people, all classes of people, and/or focus on struggles of everyday life REALISM… Hubert von Herkomer, Hard Times 1885 Why? This depiction focuses on a working class family and their unpleasant, real-life struggles to survive

Romanticism vs. Realism Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii, 1833 Romanticism: idealistic, imaginative, implausible, supernatural, artificial, exotic, complex, unrealistic, dramatic and/or an escape from reality Why? Even though the Volcano that destroyed Pompeii was a real historical event, this depiction is romantic in that it is imaginative, complex, exotic and dramatic.

Romanticism vs. Realism Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, 1808 Beethoven’s 5th Symphony could be described as imaginative, dramatic, complex and an escape from reality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

Romanticism vs. Realism Workers performing strenuous work in a field REALISM Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857

Romanticism vs. Realism A novel about Ichabod Crane, featuring superstition, ghosts, headless horsemen and suspense… Fictional, supernatural, imaginative, escape from reality ROMANTICISM Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820

Romanticism vs. Realism A novel about the turmoil in London and Paris that eventually led to the French and American Revolutions Real-life ordeals, focus on different classes REALISM Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

Romanticism vs. Realism Thomas Jones, The Bard, 1774 A bard is an old English word for a poet or playwright. This image depicts the 1283 event in which English King Edward I (same king from the Braveheart story) conquered Wales and ordered all the bards to be slaughtered.

Romanticism vs. Realism A book written in 1826 about the struggles of a handful of Mohican warriors caught up in the French and Indian War (1757) Fictional, imaginative, dramatic ROMANTICISM James Fennimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans, 1826

Romanticism vs. Realism Real life struggles of workers REALISM Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873

Romanticism vs. Realism Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People 1830 Idealistic, imaginative…

Romanticism vs. Realism Ordinary activities of a worker (laundress) REALISM Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Laundress, 1761

Romanticism vs. Realism Mozart’s Symphony #40, 1788 …could be described as imaginative, dramatic, complex and an escape from reality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJf4ZffkoI

Romanticism vs. Realism Ilya Repin, Religious Procession in Kursk Province, 1880–83 Dirty, dusty, poor and crippled children at the forefront…

Romanticism vs. Realism Ilya Repin, Leo Tolstoy, 1887 Ilya Repin’s portrait of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy Ordinary, normal, real-life (a famous author with a book in a chair)

Romanticism vs. Realism Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869 An 1869 novel detailing the French Invasion of Russia in the early 1800s and the effect on Russian society, as seen from the perspective of five Russian aristocratic families…. Real-life struggles of life in Russia

Romanticism vs. Realism Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850, "The Ninth Wave" People clinging to debris from a ship the morning after a shipwreck. The warm tones represents hope for survival. This painting is sometimes called "the most beautiful painting in Russia“. Romanticized, idealized, dramatized

Romanticism vs. Realism Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818 Romanticized, idealized, dramatized