1. Romanticism?

2. EWW. NO!

3. Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog What artistic characteristics do you notice about this painting?

5. Enlightenment/Neoclassical/Age of Reason Ideas Reason Universal Truths Natural Order Academics Classical (Think Epics!)

6. Romantic Ideas Love of Nature Idealization of Rural Living Faith in Common People Emphasis on Freedom and Individualism Spontaneity, intuition, feeling, imagination, wonder - Rejection of organized religion, tradition

7. From Enlightenment to Romanticism Romanticism as a reaction to:  The Age of Reason  The Industrial Revolution  The French Revolution Romantics value nature as spiritual experience Descartes: “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I exist.) Rousseau: “Exister, pour nous, c’est sentir” (For us, to exist is to feel.)

8. Visual Arts: Examples Neoclassical Art Death of Marat Romantic Art How are these two pieces of art different? What words best describe these paintings?

9. How does Nature appear in this painting?

10. Bottom Right Detail JM Turner The Slave Ship

11. What does this painting say about individualism and the common man? Eugène Delacroix

12. This painting depicts an 1808 shooting at Montana del Principe Pio. Can you tell Goya’s reaction to the event? What features indicate his reaction?

13. Romantic Literature  The publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 is considered the beginning of literary Romanticism. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge Byron, Shelley, Keats Byron, Shelley, Keats The Gothic Novel… Frankenstein The Gothic Novel… Frankenstein

14. Defining Romanticism  Romanticism refers to a movement in art, literature, and music during the 19 th century.  Romanticism is broadly characterized by:  Imagination  Emotion  Inspiration  Individuality

15. Romantic Ideas Love of Nature as Spiritual Source Idealization of Rural Living Faith in Common People and Democracy Emphasis on Freedom and Individualism CARPE DIEM – valuing the present Rejection of organized religion, tradition  Imagination over tradition  Intuition/Emotion over reason  Inspiration over form  Individuality over collectivism