1. Arts in the Industrial Age
Ch. 9 Sec. 4
Arts in the Industrial Age

2. Romanticism Cultural movement from 1750-1850
Reaction against the ideas of the Enlightenment
Emphasized imagination, freedom and emotion
Qualities of their works included direct language, intense feelings and glorification of nature

3. Artists Poets: Wordsworth, Blake, Byron
Writer: Hugo was inspired by history, legend and folklore
Composers: Beethoven used a new exciting range of sound
Painters: broke free from the formal styles, used bold strokes and colors to capture the beauty and power of nature

4. Realism Art movement in the mid-1800s to counter romanticism
Portray the world as it really was
Rejected romantic beauty, make people aware of the often bleak life to promote change

5. Artists
Writer: Dickens shocked readers with images of poverty, mistreatment of children and urban crime
Painters: used ordinary working class men and women in their settings

6. Photography Developed by as a new art form by mid 1800s
From stiff portraits, to fascination with faraway places, to grim realities of life
Civil war battlefields, factories and slums

7. Impressionism Result of photography - why paint real subjects.
Capture the first impression made by a scene on the viewers eye
Visual impressions
Familiar subjects in unfamiliar ways
Monet
Postimpressionsim - variety of styles
Vincent van Gogh