A New Culture:

The Arts during the Industrial Age

Romanticism

The Romantic Revolt against Reason

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,

The holy time is quiet as a Nun

Breathless with adoration; the broad sun

Is sinking down in its tranquility

-- William Wordsworth

Complete Poetical Works

Romanticism• 1750-1850 writers, artists, and composers

rebelled against the Enlightenment (emphasized reason and progress)

• Romanticism glorified nature and sought to excite strong emotion

• Writers created the Romantic Hero – a character that was mysterious, a loner, hid a secret, but we love ‘em

• Use historic heroes/ideas/events

Claude Le Lorrain• Widely known landscape

romantic and illuminist.• Represents nature as

serene, harmonious, and often majestic.

• Harbour Scene (1634, Hermitage, St Petersburg) he shows the sun on the horizon, and characteristically uses the sun to give the painting depth.

Jacques Louis David

Romanticism

John Constable, The White Horse

Francisco Goya – The ShootingNapoleon’s troops excuted

Spaniards

Washington Crossing the Brazos

Realism

A Call back to Realism

• Mid 1800s, started in the west

• Represent the world as it is– No idealism, no rose colored glasses

• Artists focused on the harsh side of like in cities or villages– Committed to exposing the conditions of

people and trying to improve them. • Slums, factories

Third Class Carriage

Impressionism

“Impressing” beginnings

• 1840 photography was invented so painting became less important.

• “Why try for realism when a photo can do much better?”

• Groups of painters went in a new direction– Sought to capture the first fleeting impression

made by a scene or object on the viewer’s eye.

– Began in Paris

Claude Monet – impressionist

Postimpressionism

• Postimpressionists developed a variety of styles. – George Seurat – small dots of color to define

shapes– Vincent Van Gogh – sharp brush lines and

bright colors– Paul Gaugin – sharp lines/flat people – convey feeling and intensity

Paul Cezanne

Vincent van Gogh – Postimpressionist

Starry Night – one of the most famous painting by van Gogh

The Olive Branch

Define the following – Due today, test Friday

• Bessemer Process• Alfred Nobel• Thomas Edison• Louis Pasteur• Robert Koch• Florence Nightingale• Joseph Lister• Natural Selection

• Darwinism• Johann Wolfgang van

Goethe• Ludwig von

Beethoven• Charles Dickens