Romanticism • 19th century artistic movement that appealed

to emotion rather then reason• Emphasis on imagination, freedom, and

emotion.

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People 1830

Romanticism

• Writers– Victor Hugo- The Three Musketeers and The

Hunchback of Notre Dame.• Music– Beethoven

Realism

• 19th Century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is.

Gustave Courbet, Stone-Breakers, 1849.

Realism

• Writers – Charles Dickens• Oliver Twist-lives of factory workers and slum dwellers

including children.

– Victor Hugo• Moves from Romanticism to Realism with Les

Miserables-life in France of a man who steels and must hide who he is to continue life after prison.

Impressionism

• Capture the first impression of a scene or object.

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant(Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan

The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse),1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas