The Age of isms--Romanticism Romantic paintings sometimes

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The Age of isms--

• Romanticism

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Romanticism was an ism that was not political.
It was a theory or movement in literature and
arts.
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Mood and emotions were part of the Romantic
movement
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Romanticism glorified the mystic, medieval past.
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Old ruins and gothic buildings were the scene of
romantic paintings and poems.
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Romantic music was emotional--
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Beethoven and Berlioz were Romantic musicians.
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A Romantic hero defined the agehandsome, young
and daring. A man willing to live fast and die
for a cause.
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The Romantics viewed with horrors the
industrialization of Britainwhen the country was
devoured by factories and heaps of waste
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In poetry, the Romantic poets, Shelly, Bryon,
Keats and Coleridge wrote about nature.
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Shelley and Bryon both moved to Italy.Shelley
drowned off the coast
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Bryon died assisting in the cause of Greek
independence
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Caspar David Friedrich captured eerie landscapes
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Romantic paintings sometimes dealt with exotic,
Eastern topics.
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..and naked slave girls.
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The Arctic expeditions captured the romantic
fancy of authors
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The great Romantic novelFrankensteineven ends
in the arctic.
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Romantics were not clinical classicists, but
emotional and intuitive.
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The Romantic movement found a home in
GermanyGerman nationalism, or Volkgeist,
celebrated the accomplishments of early
Germansthis helped to re-enforce a feeling of
German Nationalism.
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The brothers Grimm gathered folk tales that
forged German identity.
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Over time, Romanticism merged with Nationalism
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And most of these nationalists were young men,
students, searching for a better world and
wanting to make a difference.
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Delacroixs painting, Liberty Leading the
People focused on the revolution of 1830when
barricades were built throughout Paris to protest
the governments policies.
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Gericaults painting, Raft of the Medusa,
depicted a group of passengers who were left on a
raft by the crew of a sinking ship. This
Romantic painting was meant to depict the
government deserting the needs of the people.
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Are you a Romantic?

• Do you meet at student cafes discussing current
  conditions?
• Do you write poetry about nature?
• Are you fond of Gothic architecture?
• Do you contemplate what impact you will have on
  the age?