Romanticism

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Romanticism

• Derek Peat
• McDonald College for the Performing Arts

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Romanticism

• What is the Extension 1 course about?
• Basically the history of ideas in a particular
  period
• In this case a complex of ideas that develop from
  late C18th to mid C19th
• You investigate the ideas and the way they
  influence and are reflected in texts
• You also consider the way the texts develop and
  question the ideas and how they communicate them.

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Romanticism

• A Romantic isnt someone who believes in the
  power of love!
• you will come up with your own definitions of
  both Romantic and the word used to describe the
  complex of Romantic ideas, Romanticism, but
  first

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Romanticism

• You are about to see two pictures of landscapes.
  For each picture
• 1. write words that describe the picture
• 2. say how the picture makes you feel and try to
  suggest how the emotion you feel is created by
  the picture
• then
• 3. suggest which picture you prefer and give
  your reasons why

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Romanticism landscape
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Romanticism landscape
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Picture One

• Descriptive words

• Effect on me

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Picture Two

• Effect on me

• Descriptive Words

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What How
Low angle power and awe Exposure and lens flare
High angle - control Vectors lead the eye
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• Stourheead 1750s 1770s (Eighteenth C.)
• Manmade the entire scene, even the lake
• Neoclassical, using classical models (the
  Pantheon), based on paintings which were based on
  classical poems, Arcadian
• Order, proportion The Age of Reason

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The Industrial Revolution

• Coal and steam
• Move from country to city
• Redefinition of work
• Redefinition of holiday sea mountains

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Snowdon
people used to climb
mountains to get to the other side, but in
Nineteenth Century for the experienceto look
at the view
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Romanticism composing work

• You took the photographs you have just seen. For
  each one make a journal entry describing the
  scene and just how it made you feel.
• Use the form provided to explore the connection
  between values and ideas associated with
  Romanticism.

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Texts Ways of thinking Romanticism

• In this elective students explore texts which
  relate to ways of thinking characteristic of
  Romanticism in the late 18th century until the
  mid 19th century. The Romantics valued the
  imagination, individualism and idealism.
  Romanticism is typified by the search for meaning
  through representations of the individuals
  relationship with the natural world, and wider
  social and political contexts. Texts related to
  this period examine or affirm the power of the
  imagination to inform, illuminate and transform
  human experience. Experimentation with ideas and
  forms may reflect or challenge ways of thinking
  during this period.

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