T.T. 9-4 pp. 260-263. Setting the Scene Many writers turned away from the harsh realities of industrial life to celebrate the natural world in the 1800s.

A New CultureT.T.

9-4 pp. 260-263

Setting the Scene Many writers turned away from the harsh realities of industrial life to celebrate the natural world in the 1800s.

Others writers though made the new industrialized, urban society the subject o their work.

The Romantic Revolt Against ReasonWordsworth was part of the movement of

romanticism that took place from 1750 to 1850

It shaped western literature and arts and cause writers, artists, and composers to rebel again Enlightenment ideas

It caused glorification of nature and strong emotions

The Romantic Hero Romance of the Past Music Romanticism in Art

The Romantic HeroWriters created in new hero that was

mysterious, melancholy hero that holds a great secret

Britain's Lord Bryon created these figures and gained much public interest on his works

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe wrote Faust, a dramatic play about a youth’s journey

Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre, a book bout a governess, her employer, and a dark secret.

Romance of the PastRomantic writers combined history, legend,

and folkloreSir Walter Scott’s novels and ballads covered

the history or Scottish clans and medieval knights

Alexandre Dumas recreated France’s past in The Three Musketeers

Musico Composers of this time liked to stir deep emotions o Ludwig van Beethoven combined classical

forms with a stringing sound, was the first composer to use a range of instruments in an orchestra ,and is considered the greatest composer off his day

o Other composers, such as Frederic Chopin, wove folk melodies in their works to glorify their nation’s pasts

Romanticism in ArtPainters broke from the rules of the

Enlightenment J.M.W. Turner painted tiny humans figures

struggling against the sea to show the beauty of nature

Painters showed many different subjects from peasants to knights

Bright colors conveyed strong energy and emotions

Eugene Delacroix painted dramatic action in paintings such as Liberty Leading the People

The Call to RealismRealism, a new artistic movement, took hold

in the 1800sIt attempted to represent things as they were

and focused on the harsh side of lifeArtists often committed to helping the

unforunates their depictedThe NovelDramaRealism in Art

The NovelCharles Dickens portrayed slum dwellers and factory workers.Oliver Twist follows a nine-year-old orphan boy

trying to find food but he is denied the foodThis tale shocked readers with its poverty and

childrenDickens' humor and characters and him famousNovelists of that time portrayed the ills of their

timeThese books included Les Miserables by Victor

Hugo and Germinal by Emile Zola

DramaHenrik Ibsen brought realism to the stage

through his plays A Doll’s House and A Enemy of the People

His plays attacked hypocrisy though a woman in a straightjacket and a doctor discovering a spa is polluted

Ibsen's realistic dramas had a wide influence in europe and the United States

Realism in Arto Painters portrays their time, casting off

romantic emphasis on imaginationo They focused on ordinary subjects such as

workerso Gustave Courbet painted The Stone Breakers

which showed two laborers on a country road

o Thomas Eakins painted The Gross Clinic which shocked with its depiction of a medical class conducting a dissection

New Directions in the Visual ArtsPhotography emerged in the 1840sLouis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot

invented technologies to get rid of stiff photographs

Photography was used to capture families, dreams, battlefields, and factories.The ImpressionistsThe Postimpressionists

The Impressionistso Photography threatened painters by discouraging them from painting realismo Impressionism then took root in Paris as

paintings that captured a viewer with a first impression

o Claude Monet and Edgar Degas started a new technique of painting of not blending the colors as they believed the human eye would do that

o Focus on visual impressions achieved a fresh view on subjects

The PostimpressionistsPainters called postimpressionists developed a variety of styles Georges Seurat arranged small dots to define

objectsVincent van Gogh experimented with sharp

brush lines and bright colorsPaul Gaugin rejected materialism and lived on

the island of Tahiti He painted people looking ‘flat’ and brooding

colors and black outlining that conveyed intense feeling and images

Review1. Romanticism-Artists, Writers, and

Composers that glorified nature and sought to excite strong emotions in the audience

2. Realism-Attempt to represent the world as it was, not as glorified by the romantics.

3. Impressionism-Artists tried to capture the first fleeting impression made by a scene or object on the viewer’s eye.

Review1. Lord Byron- A British poet and writer who created a mysterious, melancholy hero who felt

out of step with society

2. Ludwig van Beethoven- German composer that combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound

3. Charlotte Bronte- English novelist who wrote Jane Eyre

4. Charles Dickens-Realist writer who wrote Oliver Twist

5. Claude Monet- Impressionist painter finished paintings without blending brush strokes

6. Vincent van Gogh- Dutch Post-Impressionist painter used sharp brush lines and bold colors.

7. George Seurat- Artist that arranged small dots of color to define shapes of objects

8. Henrik Ibsen- Used his plays to attack the hypocrisy that he saw around him

9. Victor Hugo- French realist artist that wrote “Les Miserables”

Review1. What invention in the 1800s about led to the

end of “Realism” in paintings? The camera2. What did romantic artists try to show? They

sought to portray and arouse strong emotions

3. What was the romantic movement in the arts a reaction against? The rebellion was against the Enlightenments emphasis on reason and progress and responded to industrialism by largely ignoring it.