19th Century Artistic and
Literary Movements
Romanticism
Realism
Symbolism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Romanticism
Emotion
Feeling
Grandeur
Imagination
Nationalism
History and Folk Tales
Nature
Romanticism
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Associated with the Middle Class
Emphasis on individual fulfillment.
Imagination and Emotion.
Rebellion against classicism
Shipwreck by Turner
The
Colossus
by Goya
Napoleon
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Raft of the Medusa by Gericault
Liberty Leading...
Massacre at
Chios by
Delacroix
Note
connections
to
nationalism
Romanticism in Literature
• William Wordsworth “I wander’d lonely as a cloud, That
floats on high o’er vales and hills.”
• Lord Byron--”When a man hath no freedom to fight for at
home, Let him combat for that of his neighbors; Let him
think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, and get
knocked on his head for his labors.”
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• Arthurian Tales and Legends
Literature
• Poets
• Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
• William Wordsworth
• Lake District Poets
• Percy Bryce Shelley
• Lord Byron
• Writers
• Goethe’s Faust--The
struggle in the mind of
a heroic individual.
• Sir Walter Scott--the
historical novel
Ivanhoe.
• Alexandre Dumas-The Three Musketeers
Romantic Music
• Beethoven as a bridge b/w
classical and romantic
• 3rd Symphony—Eroica
initially dedicated to
Napoleon.
• Richard Wagner (German)
• Franz Schubert
• Franz Liszt
• Tchaikovsky (Russia)
1812 Overture
• Opera--Emotion!!!
• Paganini--Italian
• Verdi--Italian link
with nationalism-Victor Emmanual Roi
d’Italia
• Puccini--La Boheme
Realism
Photograph
Everyday Images
Not glamourous
Not emotional/feeling
Real life situations
Realism Artists
• Courbet—”Show me
an angel and I will
paint you an angel”
– The Painter’s Studio
– The Stone Breakers
• Constable—
Landscapes (also
Romanticism)
– The Haywain
• Daumier
– 3rd Class Carriage.
• Millet
– The Sower
The Stone Breakers by Courbet
3rd Class Carriage by Daumier
Realism in Literature
• Charles Dickens--Great Expectations, A
Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times
• “It was a town of red brick, or of brick that
would have been red if the smoke and ashes
had allowed it.” Hard Times
• The Beggar by Chekov
Symbolism
• Verlaine--French Poet
• "There is weeping in my heart, Like the rain
falling on the city."
• Shadowy images evoked by symbols
• Gave impressions by suggestion rather than
by direct statement.
• Focused on exotic and imagery to suggest
the world of the spirit
Impressionism
Images
Feeling
Emotion
Moods
Non-photograph
Everyday life
Parliament by Monet
Waterlillies by Monet
Bar at Folies by Manet
Post Impressionism
Broader Strokes
Vivid Colors
Emphasized Moods and images
Starry Night by Van Gogh
Café Terrace at Night by Van
Gogh
Moulin Rouge
by ToulouseLatrec
Practice Time
Can you match the painting with the
movement in the 19th century?
The Haywain by Constable
Gauguin--Day of the Gods
Sea Monsters by Turner
Ambassadeurs
by ToulouseLatrec
Claude Monet
Sea of
Fog
Renoir--Rowers Lunch
Van Gogh--The Bedroom