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Arts in the Industrial Age

Arts in the Industrial Age. Chapter 9, Section 4. Objectives. Understand what themes shaped romantic art, literature, and music. Explain how realists responded to the industrialized, urban world. Describe how the visual arts changed. Romanticism.

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Arts in the Industrial Age

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  1. Arts in the Industrial Age Chapter 9, Section 4

  2. Objectives • Understand what themes shaped romantic art, literature, and music. • Explain how realists responded to the industrialized, urban world. • Describe how the visual arts changed.

  3. Romanticism • Artistic style emphasizing imagination, freedom, and emotion. • Turns against order, harmony, reason, and emotional restraint. • Included simple direct language, intense feelings, and a glorification of nature. • Seen in art, music, architecture and literature.

  4. romanticism • Hero: mysterious, melancholy figure who felt out of step with society; moody, isolated; often hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny. Exs: Byron, Goethe, Bronte • Writers combined history, legend and folklore. Exs: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo • Architects used ideas from medieval Gothic styles. • Musicians tried to stir emotions. Some wove traditional folk melodies into their works. Exs: Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin

  5. Romanticism • Landscape painters sought to capture beauty and power of nature. • Simple subjects: peasant life, bright colors • Exs: J.M.W. Turner, Delacroix

  6. Realism • Mid-1800s • Attempt to represent the world as it was, without sentimentality; often focused on the harsh side of life in cities or villages • Literature examples: Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola • Drama: plays written about the plight of society. Ex: Henrik Ibsen • Art: focused on ordinary subjects and people

  7. Impressionism • Photography started in the 1840s with Louis Daguerre. Art no longer needed to be realistic. • Artists tried for the impression made by a scene of object on the viewer’s eye. • Started in Paris • No blending of brushstrokes. The human eye would do this automatically. • Sometimes painted same subject at different times of day for different lighting.

  8. Postimpressionism • Georges Seurat: Pointillism • Vincent Van Gogh: sharp brush lines and bright colors • Paul Gauguin: flat people, primitive

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