Literature, Music and Art in the Industrial Age

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Literature, Music and Art in the Industrial Age

• Ch 14. Sec 5

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Romanticism

• Romanticism appealed to the imagination and a
  spirit of individuality.
• These artist were interested in showing the life
  as they thought it should be than as it really
  was.

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Romantic Music

• Composers were inspired by their cultures they
  grew up in.
• This Music is still heard around the world today.
• Ludwig Von Beethoven, his music is known to be
  powerful and passionate.
• Pastoral Symphony, Fidelio, and his last symphony.

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Romantic Music

• Pyotr Ilich Tachaichysky
• A Russian composer, wrote ballet music, operas,
  and symphonies.
• Built his works around stories.
• The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet and 1812
  Overture(Celebrates Napoleons defeat).

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The Rise of Realism

• Romantic art and Literature had little to do with
  ordinary people.
• Artist began to deal with everyday life and
  society. Realism
• Realist often dealt with economic and social
  issues.
• Leo Tolstoy --- War and Peace --- Book about the
  misery and death of war.

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The Rise of Realism

• In the U.S. one form of realism was regionalism.
• Focused on everyday life in certain places.
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
• Wrote by Mark Twain
• Described life along the Missippippi.

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Naturalist

• Naturalist took realism even further.
• They showed the ugly and unpleasant aspect
  everyday life.
• Emily Zola and Charles Dickens.
• A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist

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Impressionist

• Impressionist painters tried to paint vivid
  impressions of people and places.
• Studied light and color to get effect.
• Cluade Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir