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Agenda: Warm-Up FN: Romanticism Home Fun: Read, Mark and annotate Document Packet

Mighty Mustang Monday JANUARY 11, 2016. Warm-Up Throughout the first period of our class 1450-1648 religion was seen as one of the most important issues of state, often intertwined with the running of the nation. How has that changed in the second period, 1648-1815?. Agenda: Warm-Up

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Agenda: Warm-Up FN: Romanticism Home Fun: Read, Mark and annotate Document Packet

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  1. Mighty Mustang Monday JANUARY 11, 2016 Warm-Up Throughout the first period of our class 1450-1648 religion was seen as one of the most important issues of state, often intertwined with the running of the nation. How has that changed in the second period, 1648-1815? • Agenda: • Warm-Up • FN: Romanticism • Home Fun: • Read, Mark and annotate Document Packet • Terms Quiz on Ch. 18/19 terms this Thursday Notebooks due Thurs AP Euro

  2. Key Concept – 2.4 Period 2 (1648-1815) The popularization and dissemination of the Scientific Revolution and the application of its methods to political, social and ethical issues led to an increased, although not unchallenged, emphasis on reason in European culture VI. While Enlightenment values dominated the world of European ideas, they were challenged by the revival of public sentiment and feeling. C. Romanticism emerged as a challenge to Enlightenment rationality.

  3. Terrific Tuesday JANUARY 12, 2016 Notebooks due Thurs Take out your notes on Romanticism Precious time – 10 min. • Agenda: • Precious Time • FN: Romanticism • Home Fun: • Socratic Seminar Prep • LEQ Prep AP Euro

  4. ROMANTICISM: The Artistic Expression of Liberalism EQ - How did Romanticism challenge the rationality of the Enlightenment? Which characteristics do this best? Why?

  5. The Spirit of the Age (1790-1850) • A sense of a shared vision among the Romantics. • Early support of the French Revolution. • Rise of the individual  alienation. • Dehumanization of industrialization. • Radical poetics / politics  an obsessionwith violent change.

  6. 1. Emotions! Passion! Irrationality!

  7. A Growing Distrust of Reason Early19c Enlightenment Romanticism Society is good, curbing violent impulses! Civilization corrupts! • The essence of human experience is subjective and emotional. • Human knowledge is a puny thing compared to other great historical forces. • “Individual rights” are dangerous efforts at selfishness  the community is more important.

  8. The Romantic Movement • Began in the 1790s and peaked in the 1820s. • Mostly in Northern Europe, especially in Britain and Germany. • A reaction against classicism. • The “Romantic Hero:” • Greatest example was Lord Byron • Tremendously popular among the European reading public. • Youth imitated his haughtiness and rebelliousness.

  9. Characteristics of Romanticism The Engaged & Enraged Artist: • The artist apart from society. • The artist as social critic/revolutionary. • The artist as genius.

  10. Wandering Above the Sea of FogCaspar David Friedrich,1818

  11. Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794

  12. 2. The "Rugged" Individual

  13. Characteristics of Romanticism The Individual/ The Dreamer: • Individuals have unique, endless potential. • Self-realization comes through art • Artists are the true philosophers.

  14. The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835

  15. Solitary Tree Caspar David Friedrich, 1823

  16. 3. The Power & Fury of Nature

  17. Characteristics of Romanticism Glorification of Nature: • Peaceful, restorative qualities [an escape from industrialization and the dehumanization it creates]. • Awesome, powerful, horrifying aspects of nature. • Indifferent to the fate of humans. • Overwhelming power of nature.

  18. An Avalanche in the AlpsPhilip James de Loutherbourg, 1803

  19. Sunset After a Storm On the Coast of Sicily – Andreas Achenbach, 1853

  20. The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

  21. Tree of CrowsCaspar David Friedrich, 1822

  22. Shipwreck – Joseph Turner, 1805

  23. The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1819

  24. 4. Science Can Be Dangerous!

  25. Isaac Newton – William Blake, 1795

  26. Dr. Frankenstein’s Adam & Eve??

  27. 5. The "New" Technology Is Dehumanizing

  28. Rain, Steam, and SpeedJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1844

  29. Rain, Steam, & Speed(details)

  30. The Slave ShipJoseph Mallord William Turner, 1842

  31. The Slave Ship(details)

  32. 6. Romanticizing Country Life

  33. Flatford Mill – John Constable, 1817

  34. The Hay Wain - John Constable, 1821

  35. 7. The Gothic: "Romanticizing" the Middle Ages

  36. Characteristics of Romanticism Revival of Past Styles: • Gothic & Romanesque revival. • “Neo-Gothic” architectural style. • Medieval ruins were a favorite theme for art and poetry.

  37. Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s GroundJohn Constable, 1825

  38. Salisbury Cathedral from the MeadowsJohn Constable, 1831

  39. Hadleigh Castle - John Constable, 1829

  40. Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825

  41. Winter Landscape with ChurchGaspar David Friedrich, 1811

  42. British Houses of Parliament1840-1865

  43. 8. The Exotic, the Occult, and the Macabre!

  44. Characteristics of Romanticism The Supernatural: • Ghosts, fairies, witches, demons. • The shadows of the mind—dreams & madness. • The romantics rejected materialism in pursuit of spiritual self-awareness. • They yearned for the unknown and the unknowable.

  45. Cloister Cemetery in the SnowCaspar David Friedrich, 1817-1819

  46. Mad Woman With a Mania of Envy TheodoreGericault, 1822-1823

  47. The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the SunWilliam Blake, 1808-1810

  48. Nightmare (The Incubus)Henry Fuseli, 1781

  49. Witches SabbathFrancisco Goya,1798

  50. Saturn DevoursHis SonFrancisco Goya,1819-1823

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