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

 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

 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…

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.

 Music  Ludwig van Beethoven –  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.

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

 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!

 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.”

 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”)

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

 1. Provide a written description of what style you choose (Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism); refer to the textbook pages 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).