Revolution in the Arts

Romanticism

Romantic Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven

• Peter Tchaikovsky

• Frederic Chopin

• Franz Schubert

• Antonin Dvorak

Romantic Literature

Some Famous Authors from the Period

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust• Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers• Victor Hugo – Hunchback of Notre Dame and

Les Miserables• Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe (among others)• Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (not to be confused

with the Mel Brooks version)• William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Songs

of Experience

Romantic Painting• Original

Wardrobe Malfunction?

• Painting titled Liberty Leading the People – Eugene Delacroix

• Meant to stir emotions, rather than appeal to intellect

Enough with the Romantic Stuff…It’s time for some Realism!

Realist Artists Portrayed “The Real World” not “The Ideal World”

• Honore Daumier and Jean-François Millet joined Courbet in Realism painting.

• Realism authors include: Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy

A Tale of Two Carols

Impressionism

• Claude Monet

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Post Impressionism

• “I do not want to reproduce nature, I want to recreate it.” – Paul Cézanne

• Notable Post Impressionist artist include:– Paul Cézanne – Georges Seurat– Paul Gauguin– Vincent van Gough– Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec