Romanticism for 12 honors
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RomanticismRomanticism refers to a movement in art, literature, and music during the 19th century.
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This is as romantic as Romantic
gets. Man alone, finding himself in the awe-inspiring world of nature
Caspar David Friedrich’s “Mountaineer in a Misty Landscape”
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Industrial Development, Social Progress, Scientific Progress of 19th century
• First era of feminism and workers’ rights (trade unions, socialism)
• Industrial Revolution: industry overtakes agriculture as source of national wealth
• Urbanization: More people living in cities than country for first time in human history
• Steam power, railroads, factories - “a wilderness of human beings”
• Scientific Discoveries• Louis Pasteur discovers source of disease in germs; proposes
vaccination
• Charles Robert Darwin - theory of evolution, natural selection; Social Darwinism”
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Romantic subject matter:Quest for beautyInterest in nature
As source for knowledge of primitiveAs a refuge from industrialized worldAs revelation of God to the individual
Escapism from social/political problemsUse of far-away, antique and fanciful places
Interest in past, supernaturalCharacterization and mood: grotesque, gothic,
sense of terror, fear; use of odd and strange
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Characteristics of Romanticism• values feelings over reason• values the power of the imagination• seeks the beauty of unspoiled nature• values youthful innocence• values individual freedom• values the lessons of the past• finds beauty in exotic locales, the
supernatural, and in the imagination• values poetry as the highest expression
of the imagination• values myth, legend, and folk culture
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Romanticism is characterized by the 5 “I”s:
Imagination
Intuition
Idealism
Inspiration
Individuality
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The Spirit of the Age (1790-1850) A sense of a shared vision among the
Romantics.
Early support of the French Revolution.
Rise of the individual alienation.
Dehumanization of industrialization.
Radical poetics / politics an obsession with violent change.
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EnlightenmentSociety is good, curbing violent impulses
Civilization corruptsRomanticis
m
Early19cEarly19c
A Growing Distrust of Reason
The essence of human experience is subjective and emotional.
Human knowledge is a puny thing compared to other great historical forces.
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The Romantic Movement Began in the 1790s and peaked in the 1820s.
Mostly in Northern Europe, especially in Britain and Germany.
A reaction against classicism.
The “Romantic Hero:”
Greatest example was Lord Byron
Tremendously popular among the European reading public.
Youth imitated his haughtiness and rebelliousness.
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Characteristics of Romanticism
The Engaged & Enraged Artist:The artist apart from society.
The artist as social critic/revolutionary.
The artist as genius.
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Wandering Above the Sea
of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich,
1818
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Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794
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Characteristics of Romanticism
The Individual/ The Dreamer:
Individuals have unique, endless potential.
Self-realization comes through art. Artists are the true philosophers.
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The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835
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Characteristics of Romanticism
Glorification of Nature: Peaceful, restorative qualities [an escape
from industrialization and the dehumanization it creates].
Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of nature.
Indifferent to the fate of humans.
Overwhelming power of nature.
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Sunset After a Storm On the Coast of Sicily – Andreas Achenbach, 1853
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Tree of CrowsCaspar David Friedrich, 1822
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The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819
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Isaac Newton – William Blake, 1795
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Dr. Frankenstein’s Adam & Eve??
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Rain, Steam, and SpeedJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1844
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The Slave ShipJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1842
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Flatford Mill – John Constable, 1817
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The Corn Field
John Constable,
1826
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The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821
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Characteristics of Romanticism
Revival of Past Styles:
Gothic & Romanesque revival.
“Neo-Gothic” architectural style.
Medieval ruins were a favorite theme for art and poetry.
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Hadleigh Castle - John Constable, 1829
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Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825
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Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David Friedrich, 1811
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Characteristics of RomanticismThe Supernatural:
Ghosts, fairies, witches, demons.
The shadows of the mind—dreams & madness.
The Romantics rejected materialism in pursuit of spiritual self-awareness.
They yearned for the unknown and the unknowable.
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Abbey in an Oak ForestCaspar David Friedrich, 1809-1810
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Mad Woman With a Mania of Envy
TheodoreGericault, 1822-1823
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Pity - William Blake, 1795
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The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed
with the Sun
William Blake, 1808-1810
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Stonehenge - John Constable, 1836
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Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781
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Manfred and the Witch of the AlpsJohn Martin - 1837
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Witches Sabbath
Francisco Goya,1798
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Saturn DevoursHis Son
Francisco Goya,
1819-1823
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Greece on the Ruins of
Missolonghi
Eugène Delacroix, 1827
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Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830
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His Majesty’s Ship, “Victory”(Trafalgar) - John Constable, 1806
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Napoleonat the
St. BernardPass
David,1803
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The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815
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Pandemonium - John Martin, 1841
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Characteristics of Romanticism
Exoticism:
The attraction of the “other.”
A sense of escape from reality.
A psychological/moral justification of imperialism?
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Grand Canal, VeniceJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1835
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The Fanatics of TangiersEugène Delacroix, 1837-1838
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The Sultan of Morocco and His EntourageEugène Delacroix, 1845
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The Turkish BathJean Auguste Ingres, 1852-1863
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The Bullfight - Francisco Goya
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The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash, 1815-1823
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God as the Architect - William Blake, 1794
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Body of Abel Found by Adam and EveWilliam Blake, 1825
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Faust and MephistophelesEugène Delacroix, 1826-1827
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The Seventh Plague of EgyptJohn Martin, 1823
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The Cathedral
Gaspar DavidFriedrich,
1818
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GothicGothic LiteratureLiteratureThe words Goth and Gothic describe the Germanic tribes (e.g., Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths) which sacked Rome and also ravaged the rest of Europe in the third, fourth, and fifth centuries.By the eighteenth century in England:
Gothic had become synonymous with the Middle Ages, a period which was in disfavor because it was perceived as chaotic, unenlightened, and superstitious.
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Murder Death Suicide Ghosts Demons
Gloomy settings
Family secrets
Dungeons Curses Torture
Damsel in distress
Sleep, dreamtrance
Secret corridors
Priests and monks
disappearances
Vampires Spirits Castles Tombs Terror
Gothic conventions
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Basic Plot Structure for a Gothic work• Action in the Gothic novel tends to take place at night, or
at least in a claustrophobic, sunless environment. • ascent (up a mountain high staircase); or descent (into a
dungeon, cave, underground chambers or labyrinth) or falling off a precipice; secret passage; hidden doors;
• the pursued maiden and the threat or rape or abduction;• physical decay, skulls, cemeteries, and other images of
death; ghosts; revenge; family curse; blood and gore; torture; the Doppelganger (evil twin or double); demonic possession; masking/shape-changing; black magic; madness; incest and other broken sexual taboos.
• setting important (especially weather) for mood Metonymy of gloom and horror (creaking doors, wind)
• Events are “uncanny, macabre, or melodramatically violent” bordering between reality and unreality
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The Great Age of the Novel Gothic Novel:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (1847) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847)
Historical Novel: Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1819) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (1862) The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas (1844)
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The Great Age of the Novel
Science Fiction Novel: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1817) Dracula – Bramm Stoker (1897)
Novel of Purpose: Hugh Trevar - Thomas Holcroft (1794)
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Other Romantic Writers
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1814-1816)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust (1806-1832)
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The Romantic Poets Percy Byssche Shelley
Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
John Keats
William Blake
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George Gordon’s
(Lord Byron)Poem
ThePrisoner
of Chillon
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MaryShelley
Frankenstein
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SirWalterScott
Ivanhoe
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WilliamWordsworth’s
Poem,
TinternAbbey
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SamuelTaylor
Coleridge’sPoem,
The Rimeof the
AncientMariner
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Bibliographic Sources
Bibliographic Sources
CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum. http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/fineart.htm
“Romanticism” on Artchive. http://artchive.com/artchive/romanticism.html