Technology, Art, and Culture During the 19th Century

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Technology, Art, and Culture During the 19th
Century

• Scientific Advances, Romanticism, and Realism

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Scientific Advances

• Louis Pasteur Germ Theory of Disease
• Improved the quality of life for people living in
  industrial cities
• Michael Faraday Electrical Generator
• Produce electricity through steam power
• Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
• Evolution, natural selection
• Social Darwinism
• Scientific advances caused by industrial
  revolution reduced the influence of religion
  secularization

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Romanticism

• Has nothing to do with romance or love
• Importance of emotion and feelings rather than
  reason or intellect
• Importance of the individual, especially the
  heroic individual in an exotic location
• Importance of nature, not controlled by man
• Response to . . . .
• How linked to industrial revolution?

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Examples Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog
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The Third of May 1808
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Realism

• Late 19th Century
• Represent ordinary people and the real world
  the way it actually is
• Response to . . . .
• How linked to industrial revolution?

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The Stone Breakers
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The Salmon Fisher