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Romanticism: Diverging from Enlightenment Ideals

Explore the rejection of Enlightenment principles in Romanticism through emotions, nature's power, nationalism, and the Gothic. Delve into the subjective human experience and the allure of exotic foreign lands. Discover how Romantic ideals clashed with reason in the early 19th century.

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Romanticism: Diverging from Enlightenment Ideals

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  1. Romanticism: Rejecting the Enlightenment By Susan Pojer Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY

  2. How Was Romanticism a Rejection of the Enlightenment? • Emotions, passion, and irrationality • The “rugged” individual • The power and fury of nature • The Gothic • The exotic, the occult, and the macabre • Nationalism • Exotic foreign lands

  3. A Growing Distrust of Reason Early19th Century Enlightenment Romanticism Societyis 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.

  4. 1. Emotions! Passion! Irrationality!

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

  6. Lady Macbeth - Henry Fuseli, 1794

  7. 2. The "Rugged" Individual

  8. The Dreamer Gaspar David Friedrich, 1835

  9. Solitary Tree Caspar David Friedrich, 1823

  10. 3. The Power & Fury of Nature

  11. The DelugeFrancis Danby, 1840

  12. The Eruption of Vesuvius – John Martin

  13. 4. The Gothic: "Romanticizing" the Middle Ages

  14. Eldena RuinGaspar David Friedrich, 1825

  15. British Houses of Parliament1840-1865

  16. 5. The Exotic, the Occult, and the Macabre!

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

  18. Saturn DevoursHis SonFrancisco Goya,1819-1823

  19. 6. Nationalism

  20. Liberty Leading the People Eugène Delacroix, 1830 Detail of the Musket BearerDelacoix, himself

  21. Napoleonat theSt. BernardPass David,1803

  22. The Shooting of May 3, 1808Francisco Goya, 1815

  23. 7. Interest in Exotic Foreign Lands

  24. The Bullfight - Francisco Goya

  25. The Royal Pavillion at BrightonJohn Nash, 1815-1823

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