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RomanticismDr. Gerald R. Lucas
Revolt of the Spirit
The Age of Revolutions
The Age of Imagination
The Power of Nature
Rediscovered Symbolism & Myth
The Man of Feeling (The Hero-Artist)
Eugène Delacroix“Liberty Leading the People” (1830)
The Age of Revolt
American Revolution (1776)
French Revolution (1789)
Upheavals in political, economic, and social traditions
Reform how we see the world in the arts
Rejects (generally) absolute systems
Eugène Delacroix“The Death of Sardanapalus” (1828)
ImaginationElevated to a primary position
Displaced the supremacy of reason
Is the primary facility for creating art
Links humans with nature and divinity
Creates the world around us
Allows us to reconcile differences and opposites
Emphasizes intuition, instincts, and feelings
Peder Balke“Nordkap” (18340)
NatureIs a work of art
Is constructed by a divine imagination
Is a healing power
Is a source of subject and image
Is a refuge from the artificial constructs of civilization
Is an organically unified whole
Is the opposite of the scientific mechanical
Allows for meditation and contemplation
Symbolism & Myth
Simultaneously suggest many things
Express the inexpressible
Links the present to the past
Aligned with the Middle Ages and the Baroque
Looked to the exotic
Re-envisioned the everyday
William WordsworthPreface to Lyrical Ballads
“The real language of men in a state of vivid sensation”
“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
“Emotion recollected in tranquility” & “a complex feeling of delight”
Poetry
Became free of Neoclassicism’s mechanical rules
Became bold, rather than restrained
Became suggestive, rather than precisely clear
Became experimental, rather than consigned to rules of composition and genre
Emphasized the feelings of the individual artist as creator (1st-person lyric)
Individual Expression
Illuminated what was within the individual, not the external world
Direct thoughts of the poet
Development of the poet's mind
the artist becomes hero
The IndividualIs emphasized — the unique, the eccentric
Opposed the typology of Neoclassicism
Becomes the “hero-artist”
Heaven-stormers & Outcasts
Must create his/her own way to live