9-4 A New Culture Presentation

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T.T.
9-4 pp. 260-263
Setting the Scene
Many writers turned away from the harsh realities of
industrial life to celebrate the natural world in the 1800s.
Others writers though made the new industrialized,
urban society the subject o their work.
The Romantic Revolt Against
Reason
Wordsworth was part of the movement of
romanticism that took place from 1750 to 1850
It shaped western literature and arts and cause writers,
artists, and composers to rebel again Enlightenment
ideas
It caused glorification of nature and strong emotions
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The Romantic Hero
Romance of the Past
Music
Romanticism in Art
The Romantic Hero
 Writers created in new hero that was mysterious,
melancholy hero that holds a great secret
 Britain's Lord Bryon created these figures and gained
much public interest on his works
 Johan Wolfgang von Goethe wrote Faust, a dramatic
play about a youth’s journey
 Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre, a book
bout a governess, her employer, and a dark
secret.
Romance of the Past
Romantic writers combined history, legend, and
folklore
Sir Walter Scott’s novels and ballads covered the
history or Scottish clans and medieval knights
Alexandre Dumas recreated France’s past in The Three
Musketeers
Music
o Composers of this time liked to stir deep
emotions
o Ludwig van Beethoven combined classical forms with
a stringing sound, was the first composer to use a
range of instruments in an orchestra ,and is
considered the greatest composer off his day
o Other composers, such as Frederic Chopin,
wove folk melodies in their works to glorify
their nation’s pasts
Romanticism in Art
 Painters broke from the rules of the Enlightenment
 J.M.W. Turner painted tiny humans figures struggling
against the sea to show the beauty of nature
 Painters showed many different subjects from peasants
to knights
 Bright colors conveyed strong energy and emotions
 Eugene Delacroix painted dramatic action in paintings
such as Liberty Leading the People
The Call to Realism
Realism, a new artistic movement, took hold in the
1800s
It attempted to represent things as they were and
focused on the harsh side of life
Artists often committed to helping the unforunates
their depicted
 The Novel
 Drama
 Realism in Art
The Novel
 Charles Dickens portrayed slum dwellers
and factory workers.
 Oliver Twist follows a nine-year-old orphan boy trying
to find food but he is denied the food
 This tale shocked readers with its poverty and children
 Dickens' humor and characters and him famous
 Novelists of that time portrayed the ills of their time
 These books included Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
and Germinal by Emile Zola
Drama
Henrik Ibsen brought realism to the stage through his
plays A Doll’s House and A Enemy of the People
His plays attacked hypocrisy though a woman in a
straightjacket and a doctor discovering a spa is
polluted
Ibsen's realistic dramas had a wide influence in europe
and the United States
Realism in Art
o Painters portrays their time, casting off romantic
emphasis on imagination
o They focused on ordinary subjects such as workers
o Gustave Courbet painted The Stone Breakers which
showed two laborers on a country road
o Thomas Eakins painted The Gross Clinic which
shocked with its depiction of a medical class
conducting a dissection
New Directions in the Visual Arts
Photography emerged in the 1840s
Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot invented
technologies to get rid of stiff photographs
Photography was used to capture families, dreams,
battlefields, and factories.
 The Impressionists
 The Postimpressionists
The Impressionists
o Photography threatened painters by
discouraging them from painting realism
o Impressionism then took root in Paris as paintings
that captured a viewer with a first impression
o Claude Monet and Edgar Degas started a new
technique of painting of not blending the colors as
they believed the human eye would do that
o Focus on visual impressions achieved a fresh view on
subjects
The Postimpressionists
Painters called postimpressionists
developed a variety of styles
Georges Seurat arranged small dots to define objects
Vincent van Gogh experimented with sharp brush
lines and bright colors
Paul Gaugin rejected materialism and lived on the
island of Tahiti
He painted people looking ‘flat’ and brooding colors
and black outlining that conveyed intense feeling and
images
Review
Romanticism-Artists, Writers, and Composers that
glorified nature and sought to excite strong emotions
in the audience
2. Realism-Attempt to represent the world as it was, not
as glorified by the romantics.
3. Impressionism-Artists tried to capture the first
fleeting impression made by a scene or object on the
viewer’s eye.
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Review
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Lord Byron- A British poet and writer who created a mysterious, melancholy hero who felt out of
step with society
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Ludwig van Beethoven- German composer that combined classical forms with a stirring range of
sound
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Charlotte Bronte- English novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
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Charles Dickens-Realist writer who wrote Oliver Twist
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Claude Monet- Impressionist painter finished paintings without blending brush strokes
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Vincent van Gogh- Dutch Post-Impressionist painter used sharp brush lines and bold colors.
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George Seurat- Artist that arranged small dots of color to define shapes of objects
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Henrik Ibsen- Used his plays to attack the hypocrisy that he saw around him
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Victor Hugo- French realist artist that wrote “Les Miserables”
Review
What invention in the 1800s about led to the end of
“Realism” in paintings? The camera
2. What did romantic artists try to show? They sought
to portray and arouse strong emotions
3. What was the romantic movement in the arts a
reaction against? The rebellion was against the
Enlightenments emphasis on reason and progress
and responded to industrialism by largely ignoring
it.
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