19th Century Artistic and Literary Movements

RomanticismRealism

SymbolismImpressionism

Post-Impressionism

Romanticism

EmotionFeeling

GrandeurImaginationNationalism

History and Folk TalesNature

Romanticism

• Associated with the Middle Class

• Emphasis on individual fulfillment.

• Imagination and Emotion.

• Rebellion against classicism

Shipwreck by Turner

The Colossus by GoyaNapoleon

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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

RealismPhotograph

Everyday ImagesNot glamourous

Not emotional/feelingReal 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

ImpressionismImagesFeelingEmotionMoods

Non-photographEveryday life

Parliament by Monet

Waterlillies by Monet

Bar at Folies by Manet

Post ImpressionismBroader Strokes

Vivid ColorsEmphasized Moods and images

Starry Night by Van Gogh

Café Terrace at Night by Van Gogh

Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-

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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 Toulouse-

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Claude Monet

Sea of Fog

Renoir--Rowers Lunch

Van Gogh--The Bedroom