1. You Say You Want A Revolution?
Arts and the Enlightenment

2. Think Pair Share
Who are the artists today pushing the boundaries? Revolutionary artists?

3. What about literature?

4. Meet Miguel de Cervantes

5. Meet Cervantes - the great novelist of the 1600s
Miguel de Cervantes wrote the first modern novel
in the early 1600s
The book is called Don Quixote de la Mancha
It is a humorous tale of an aging man who is stuck in the myths of the past

6. When someone carries on foolishly - not recognizing the realities of life - they are acting like Don Quixote
someone who is foolishly tilting at windmills

7. It is a story of a new world rejecting the legends of hte old for a reality based on science

8. What about art?

9. Meet Edward Delacroix

10. Glorifying the French Revolution
Edward Delacroix
Glorifying the French Revolution

11. What about music?

12. What you know as classical music was quite dramatic and unsettling back in the time of the Enlightenment.
It wasn’t at all what people were use to....

13. Meet Johann Sebastian
Bach

14. Invented Baroque music
Johann Sebastian Bach
German musician
Invented Baroque music
Known for the use of the organ in compositions

15. Meet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

16. His famous works include The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most brilliant men of his century. Mozart almost single handily created the piano concerto. He was a genius.
His famous works include The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro

17. Meet Stravinsky

18. Stravinsky
He isn’t one of the Enlightenment artists but in the early 1900s he really pushed the boundaries of what was defined as music...

19. Today it is one of the most popular pieces performed.
Stravinsky
His Rite of Spring was a ballet about pagan Russia. It was first shown in Paris in May 29, 1913.
It was so discordant and disturbing and so unlike anything the audience had ever imagined that it caused a riot
Today it is one of the most popular pieces performed.

20. Much like today’s artists, the artists of the Enlightenment period challenged the accepted ideas of society.