A New Culture:

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A New Culture

• The Arts during the Industrial Age

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Romanticism
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The Romantic Revolt against Reason

• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
• The holy time is quiet as a Nun
• Breathless with adoration the broad sun
• Is sinking down in its tranquility
• -- William Wordsworth
• Complete Poetical Works

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Romanticism

• 1750-1850 writers, artists, and composers
  rebelled against the Enlightenment (emphasized
  reason and progress)
• Romanticism glorified nature and sought to excite
  strong emotion
• Writers created the Romantic Hero a character
  that was mysterious, a loner, hid a secret, but
  we love em
• Use historic heroes/ideas/events

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Claude Le Lorrain

• Widely known landscape romantic and illuminist.
• Represents nature as serene, harmonious, and
  often majestic.
• Harbour Scene (1634, Hermitage, St Petersburg) he
  shows the sun on the horizon, and
  characteristically uses the sun to give the
  painting depth.

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Jacques Louis David
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Romanticism
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John Constable, The White Horse
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Francisco Goya The ShootingNapoleons troops
excuted Spaniards
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Washington Crossing the Brazos
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Realism
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A Call back to Realism

• Mid 1800s, started in the west
• Represent the world as it is
• No idealism, no rose colored glasses
  
• Artists focused on the harsh side of like in
  cities or villages
• Committed to exposing the conditions of people
  and trying to improve them.
• Slums, factories

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Third Class Carriage
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Impressionism
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Impressing beginnings

• 1840 photography was invented so painting became
  less important.
• Why try for realism when a photo can do much
  better?
• Groups of painters went in a new direction
• Sought to capture the first fleeting impression
  made by a scene or object on the viewers eye.
• Began in Paris

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Claude Monet impressionist
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Postimpressionism
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• Postimpressionists developed a variety of styles.
  
• George Seurat small dots of color to define
  shapes
• Vincent Van Gogh sharp brush lines and bright
  colors
• Paul Gaugin sharp lines/flat people
• convey feeling and intensity
  

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Paul Cezanne
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Vincent van Gogh Postimpressionist
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Starry Night one of the most famous painting by
van Gogh
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The Olive Branch
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Define the following Due today, test Friday

• Bessemer Process
• Alfred Nobel
• Thomas Edison
• Louis Pasteur
• Robert Koch
• Florence Nightingale
• Joseph Lister
• Natural Selection

• Darwinism
• Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
• Ludwig von Beethoven
• Charles Dickens