AP EURO ART POWERPOINT SYMBOLISM
THEMES REJECTION OF REALISM OBJECTIVE VIEW OF THE WORLD IMPOSSIBLE UNREAL EXTERNAL WORLD MADE OF SYMBOLS REFLECTED REALITY OF HUMAN MIND ART SHOULD FUNCTION INDEPENDENT OF HUMANS/ENTERTAINMENT ART SHOULD FUNCTION PRIMARILY FOR PERSONAL EXPRESSION
STYLE/TECHNIQUE EXPRESSION THROUGH POETRY POEMS EXPOSED INNER MOST PERSONAL EMOTIONS FREE VERSE SYMBOLLIC IMAGERY SEPARATION OF SENSES MYSTICAL ART LIGHT/DARK CONTRAST
3 ARTISTS/WORKS GUSTAV MOREAU (FRANCE) – ARTIST (BIBLOCAL/MYTHOLOGICAL) – “A SCENE FROM THE SONG OF SONGS” EDGAR ALLEN POE (AMERICA) – AUTHOR – “THE RAVEN” W.B. YEATS (IRELAND) – POET – “THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN” RAINER MARIA RILKE (AUSTRIA) - POET – “DUINO ELEGIES” ARTHUR RIMBAUD (FRANCE) – POET – “THE DRUNKET BOAT” (PG. 738)
CONNECTION TO CLASS FREUD – LIKE SYMBOLS REFLECT REALITY OF HUMAN MIND, MEANING IN EVERYTHING NIETSCHE – DISLIKE HUMANS/SOCIETY ARE CAPABLE OF CREATIVITY DARWIN – DISLIKE ANTI REALISM EINSTEIN – DISLIKE ART SHOULD FUNCTION APART FROM HUMANS AND SCIENCE, VALUE EMOTION NOT SCIENCE