What is the Appeal of Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, and other supernatural creatures

in books, movies, and TV?

Vocabulary:

• Romanticism – Artistic movement of the 18th and 19th Centuries that emphasized emotions and feelings over reason and science, partly as a reaction against the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution.

• Irrational- to be without reason.• Macabre- To be preoccupied or to think

often on death.• Gothic- Having to do with the middle ages.

Characteristics of Romanticism

Characteristics of Romanticism

1.The Engaged & Enraged Artist The artist must be separate

from from corrupting society.

The artist must be the Critic of society, must start Revolution.

The artist as genius.

1.The Engaged & Enraged Artist The artist must be separate

from from corrupting society.

The artist must be the Critic of society, must start Revolution.

The artist as genius.

Characteristics of Romanticism

Characteristics of Romanticism

2.Glorification of Nature: Peaceful, restorative

qualities that can provide an escape from the cities and work.

Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of nature.

Uncaring of the fate of humans.

Overwhelming power of nature.

2.Glorification of Nature: Peaceful, restorative

qualities that can provide an escape from the cities and work.

Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of nature.

Uncaring of the fate of humans.

Overwhelming power of nature.

Characteristics of Romanticism

Characteristics of Romanticism

3.The Supernatural: Ghosts, fairies, witches,

demons, Oh My!

The shadows of the mind—dreams & madness.

A reaction to rationalism [an escape from reason!]

3.The Supernatural: Ghosts, fairies, witches,

demons, Oh My!

The shadows of the mind—dreams & madness.

A reaction to rationalism [an escape from reason!]

Characteristics of Romanticism

Characteristics of Romanticism4.Exoticism:

Things that are different are more interesting.

A sense of escape from reality.

The desire to acquire that which is new and different

Revival of Past Styles:

Gothic & Romanesque revival.

4.Exoticism: Things that are different are

more interesting.

A sense of escape from reality.

The desire to acquire that which is new and different

Revival of Past Styles:

Gothic & Romanesque revival.

Characteristics of Romanticism

5. Nationalism Pride in your nation over other

nations Interest in your folklore, music

and language Focus on being part of a country

rather than part of Europe

TheEnlightenment

TheEnlightenment

Society is good, curbing violent impulses!

Society is good, curbing violent impulses!

Civilization corrupts;institutions increase corruption!

Civilization corrupts;institutions increase corruption!

Romanticism

Romanticism

Early19c

The New Romantics Paint what they

Feel, and what they Believe…

Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794

Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

Eugène Delacroix,

1827

Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

Eugène Delacroix,

1827

Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830

The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815

The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815

Wandering Above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich,

1818

Wandering Above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich,

1818

The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835

The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835

An Avalanche in the AlpsPhilip James de Loutherbourg,

1803

An Avalanche in the AlpsPhilip James de Loutherbourg,

1803

The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819

Theodore Von Holst

Frontispiece to Mary Shelley, Frankenstein published by Colburn and

Bentley, London

1831

The Corn Field

John Constable,

1826

The Corn Field

John Constable,

1826

The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821

The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

John Constable, 1831

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows

John Constable, 1831

Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David Friedrich, 1811

Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David Friedrich, 1811

British Houses of Parliament1840-1865

British Houses of Parliament1840-1865

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon

Gaspar David Friedrich, 1825

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon

Gaspar David Friedrich, 1825

Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David Friedrich, 1817-

1819

Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David Friedrich, 1817-

1819

Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841

Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841

Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781

Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781

Saturn DevoursHis Son

Francisco Goya,

1819-1823

Saturn DevoursHis Son

Francisco Goya,

1819-1823

The Fanatics of TangiersEugène Delacroix, 1837-1838The Fanatics of Tangiers

Eugène Delacroix, 1837-1838

The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage

Eugène Delacroix, 1845

The Sultan of Morocco and His Entourage

Eugène Delacroix, 1845

The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash, 1815-1823

The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash, 1815-1823