Romanticism: Revolt Against Reason Project: due in hardcopy on Thurs Task: On your own or with a partner, create a 2-page analysis of romanticism using an example from the arts. For your work, produce 2 one-sided documents (using Word/Pages and/or PowerPoint/Keynote. Step 1: A criteria matrix showing the preparatory thinking Step 2: An essay that analyzes 1 work of art: what aspects or characteristics (Use graphic organizer in classnotes) qualify the work as an example of romanticism? Be sure to observe the writing techniques modeled in your English class, including: assertion, evidence, commentary. Be sure to include images to provide interest and illustrate your ideas.
Romanticism: Criteria Matrix Appropriate Characteristics of Romanticism Details of chosen work that connect to the definition Image that reflects/documents columns 1&2 1. 2. 3. 4.
Project Rubric Project ties definition of Romanticism as developed in course to one example* drawn from music, art, literature, architecture. Visuals support text and promote understanding of why/how the work chosen reflects romanticism. Project reflects guidelines established, displays appropriate technical, i.e. DTP, standards developed. *To avoid duplications, you must sign up with Mrs. McArthur your choice Bonus: Project is a polished product displaying key practices modeled in class: reflection, collaboration, personal deadlines and the benefits of constructive criticism.
Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Eugène Delacroix was born in the Age of Enlightenment but his artistic work belongs to the Romantic era. In this painting we see the political ideals of freedom and liberty of the 18th century once again asserting themselves, but expressed in a different way. Delacroix’s work seeks to express them through emotion and in his technique we see the use of allegory, and a rejection of precise drawing (reason) giving instead prominence to freely brushed color. His subject – a political event of historic importance -shows “Liberty” Leading the People – reflecting a commitment to individual freedom for all people. We see the allegory of Liberty in the form of robust woman of the people wearing the Phrygian cap and waving the tricolore of the French Revolution. In the background we notice that the city is on fire emphasizing the drama of the moment and highlighting the importance of the street fighters –romantic heros -in the foreground. We see stark emotion such as fierceness and determination in the eyes of the participants. The freedom fighters are climbing over the dead bodies of their comrades. It is popular rather than aristocratic - the former 3rd estate - social classes are depicted – the man in the top hat is probably bourgeois and the boy holding pistols, urban working poor, may have been the inspiration for Hugo’s Les Misérables. Delacroix’s painting, Liberty Leading the People, conveys the ideas of post-revolutionary nationalism (loyalty to the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen) using as its means the artistic sensibility of romanticism. (Bold phrases represent attributes of romanticism.)