A Movement of the 19 th Century and Beyond

 A movement in literature, music and art  A reaction to and against the structure and reason of the Enlightenment  4 Major Areas of Romanticism  Emotion  Individualism  Nature  Glorification of the Past

 Based on feeling; irrational feeling  Gothic Romance  Rejected Enlightenments balance and rationalism  Mystical, hysterical, passion of terrified heroes and heroines  Ex. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein  Love  First celebrated romantic love as natural right of every human

 “Heroic Individualism”  Ex. Napoleon  Ex. Jean Valjean in Les Miserable's  One is can make himself capable to be and do anything.  Directly connected to the self-created success of middle class

 Celebration of the outdoors  Rooted in middle class Europeans interest in non-city life  Middle class longed for the purity and serene settings in the countryside  Ironic that nature is so prized during Industrial Revolution

 Looked back to simpler times  Weight of classical world (past and modern) too heavy  Why? How so?  Medievalism  12 th -14 th centuries  Simpler lives  Good vs. Evil  King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table  Robin Hood

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. -Lord Byron To Nature It may indeed be phantasy, when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ; And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie Lessons of love and earnest piety. So let it be ; and if the wide world rings In mock of this belief, it brings Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Some felt the need to move back to reality  Realism focuses on life as it is, NOT as it should be  REALISTIC not idealistic Movement in politics, art and literature  Reaction to stresses and realities of industrialization

 Daguerrotypes- first photographs- true reality

 Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting  they emphasized vivid overall effects rather than details  artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it  How is this an extension of realism?

Monet, Renoir, Dega---famous Impressionist Artists