1. Life in the Industrial Age
Art and Culture

2. Romance vs. Reason What is Romanticism?
Shaped arts, culture and society in the West
Turning away from logic and reason, using imagination, emotion, freedom
Using direct language, intense emotion
A new kind of hero
Mysterious, different/outcast, date-with-destiny type heroes

3. Who’s a Romantic? Famous Romantics: Lord Byron
Wrote of love, war, passion, loss, grief
Johann van Goethe – Faust
Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
Ludwig von Beethoven – Orchestra/Symphonies
Using emotion, beauty, power of nature

4. Get Real A new artistic movement: realism Famous Realists:
Represent the world as it was, without making it sound grand/adventurous
Focused on harsh realities of cities/poor
Famous Realists:
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
Victor Hugo – Les Miserables
Henrik Ibsen – Drama/Stage
Brought attention the realities of life to everyone

5. More Art Forms Photography emerges
Begin by taking family photos of upper class
Eventually documented grim realities of life
Pics of the Civil War, slums, factory labor
Photography challenges artists to try new things
Why paint something if you can just take a picture?

6. Impressionists
Impressionism – capturing the first fleeting moment, or impression of something
Used to hide brush strokes, but now made them visible
Fresh view of familiar subjects
Famous Impressionists:
Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Renoir, Pissaro
Post Impressionists-
Georges Seurat, Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh

12. Now you tell me which….