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Romanticism: Rejecting the
Enlightenment
By Susan PojerHorace Greeley High SchoolChappaqua, NY
How Was Romanticism a Rejection of the Enlightenment?
1) Emotions, passion, and irrationality2) The “rugged” individual3) The power and fury of nature4) The Gothic 5) The exotic, the occult, and the macabre6) Nationalism7) Exotic foreign lands
EnlightenmentSociety is good, curbing
violent impulses!Civilization corrupts!
Romanticism
Early19th Century
A Growing Distrust of Reason
1) The essence of human experience is subjective and emotional.
2) Human knowledge is a puny thing compared to other great historical forces.
3) “Individual rights” are dangerous efforts at selfishness & the community is more important.
Wandering Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich,
1818
Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794
The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835
Solitary Tree Caspar David Friedrich, 1823
The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840
The Eruption of Vesuvius – John Martin
Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825
British Houses of Parliament1840-1865
Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David Friedrich, 1817-1819
Saturn DevoursHis Son
Francisco Goya,
1819-1823
Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830
Detail of the Musket Bearer
Delacoix, himself
Napoleonat the
St. BernardPass
David,1803
The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815
The Bullfight - Francisco Goya
The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash, 1815-1823