romanticism in art and literature. romanticism is defined as: an artistic and intellectual movement...
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Romanticism in Art and Literature
Romanticism is defined as:
• An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe.
• Late 18th century• A reaction to Neoclassicism
(which was unemotional and strict, and a revival of the ancient Greek ideas of art)
• Characterized by interest in:–Nature–Individual's expression of emotion and imagination
–Departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism
–Rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
–The supernatural and the occult
Romanticism is:
In Romanticist Art, we see:• The sometimes beautiful, sometimes
horrific, but always awesome. characteristics of nature.
• Anti-industrialization (new technology).
• The country setting as idealistic.• Importance of patriotism.• The exploration of Christian
unknowns.• Fascination with foreign lands.
Why are these paintings and poems
romantic?
As a class, discuss how the works of art display romanticism, using the
characteristics that we have discussed.
Ancient of Days (1794)
William Blake
The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)
Caspar David Friedrich
Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819) Theodore Gericault
Execution of the Defenders of Madrid (1808, 1814) Francisco de Goya
The Witches' Sabbath (1797-98)
Francisco de Goya
Saturn Devouring One of His Children
(1821-23)
Francisco de Goya
Women in Algiers in Their Apartment (1834)
By Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People (1830)
By Eugene Delacroix
Abbey in an Oak Forest
by Caspar David Friedrich
On Board a Sailing Ship
By Caspar David Friedrich
The Cross in the Mountain
by Caspar David Friedrich
The Hay-Wain (1821) by John Constable
The Nightmare (The Incubus)
Henry Fuseli (1781)
Rain, Steam, and Speed (1844) by Joseph Mallard William Turner
The Slave Ship (1840) Joseph Mallard William Turner
Hadleigh Castle (1829) by John Constable
But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Excerpt from Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Excerpt from
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
She Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron
A flower was offered to me,Such a flower as May never bore;But I said "I've a pretty rose tree,"
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.
Then I went to my pretty rose tree,To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,And her thorns were my only delight.
My Pretty Rose Tree
William Blake
Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And secrecy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace seal'd,The human heart its hungry gorge.
A Divine Image
By William Blake
Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own;
To feel no other breezes than are blown Through its tall woods with high romances blent:
Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian, and an inward groan
To sit upon an Alp as on a throne, And half forget what world or worldling meant.
An excerpt from Happy is England
By John Keats
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