1. Revolution in the Arts

2. Romanticism
A movement in which the artist emphasizes human emotion and imagination over reason
Inspired by Rousseau – people were naturally good and only needed to be free
Did not like what they saw in the Industrial Revolution – machines, factories, pollution, ugliness
They glorified nature

3. Romantic Painters Wanted to stir emotions, not intellect
Portrayed strong, exotic subjects in dramatic and colorful ways

4. Girl by the Fjord
Hans Dahl

5. Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix

6. Napoleon on the Throne
Ingres

7. Romantic Music Fused music with imaginative literature - Opera
Meant to stir emotions
Ludwig van Beethoven
Peter Tchaikovshy
Federic Chopan
Antonin Dvorak

8. Romantic Literature Stirs emotion and imagination
Most popular author’s were from France
- Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
- Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre
Dame and Les Miserable
Great Britain
- Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe, The Talisman
- William Blake – Songs of the Innocence, Songs
of the Experience – about the Industrial
Revolution

9. Realism Wanted to portray life in a realistic manner
“Painting…does not consist of anything but the presentation of real and concrete things.”
- Gustave Courbet

10. Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courber

11. Third Class
Honore Daumier

12. American Gothic
Grant Wood, 1933

13. Realist Literature
Honore de Balzac – 90 novels and short stories of French life in the 1800’s - collection called The Human Comedy - frank description of greed and stupidity in the growing middle class
Charles Dickens – Hard Times – spoke out for the poor and the awful conditions in prisons and hospitals in London

14. Realist Literature
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace – five families through the stages of life – historical novel about Napoleons invasion of Russia in 1812
Theodore Dreiser (American) – An American Tragedy – a young man was executed for killing his pregnant girlfriend – the man is the victim due to circumstances that he has no control over

15. Symbolism
Many found the realities of industrial Europe ugly and brutal
Symbolism = escape
Gives impressions by suggestion rather than by direct statements
Spread throughout the arts and to other countries
Intellectuals liked this
Average people found this difficult to understand

16. Impressionism Threw out the old rules Painted outside
Fascinated by color and light
Wanted to capture the momentary impression the subject made on their senses

17. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

21. Claude Monet

25. Post-impressionism Wanted to create their own independent styles
“I do not want to reproduce nature, I want to recreate it.” - Paul Cezanne

26. Paul Cezanne

30. Georges Surat

33. Paul Gauguin

36. Vincent van Gogh

44. Closure Describe the 5 movements in art.
List at least two artists from each movement.
What do paintings, music, and literature all have in common?