Transcript The Romantic Movement - Gonzaga College High School

1960’s
1820
The Romantic Movement
The Romantic Movement
Turner – The Junction of the Thames and the Medway
Reaction against:
• Classicism
– Structure, specific guidelines and rules
• The Enlightenment
– Thinking and reason, no emotion
– "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor
exact truth, but in the way of feeling.” - Baudelaire
• The Industrial Revolution
– Destruction of the environment and previous
ways of life
The Romantic Movement
• Romanticism
– Early German romantics referred to themselves as the
Sturm und Drang group (Storm and Stress).
– Unkept, long hair. Material rejection. Individualists.
– Prone to suicide and duels.
– Anti-industrialization.
– Also had a reverence for the past and its impact on
society and its institutions.
The Romantic Movement
• Romanticism
• Poster child of
romanticism?
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• He attacked
rationalism and
civilization as
destroying, rather than
liberating, the
individual.
Example, Emile
Art
• Turner – nature’s
power, ships and
storms
• Constable – British
landscapes, people at
one with nature
• Delacroix – exotic,
color drama
• Caspar David Friedrich
– Man contemplating
nature
Freidrich – Traveler Looking over a Sea of Fog
Art, cont.
• Glorification of the commonplace
• Focus on history and nationalism
Constable – Wivenhoe Park, Essex
Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People
Constable – Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
Goya – The Third of May, 1808
Music
•Free expression and
emotional intensity
•Got rid of old structures
– The German Composers
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): piano concertos, string
quartets, symphonies, an opera, and a mass.
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828): joined piano and voice
• Richard Wagner (1813-1883): nationalism expressed in music
– Other Composers
• Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): French; Symphonie Fantastique
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): operas--Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida
• Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924): La Boheme
The Romantic Movement
• Literature
– The Germans
• Goethe (1749-1832):
Faust--traditional
German legend of the
man who sold his soul to
the devil in return for
earthly knowledge and
pleasure.
• Jakob (1785-1863) &
Wilhelm (1786-1859)
Grimm: Grimms’ Fairy
Tales.
– Rapunzel
– Little Red Riding Hood
– Snow White
Literature, cont.
• France:
– Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
– Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
• Les Miserables
• The Hunchback of
NotreDame
“All for one, and one for all”
Literature
• Great Britain:
– Poets
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
• John Keats
• William Blake
– Sir Walter Scott
To Night
by: Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822)
SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave,
Spirit of Night!
Out of the misty eastern cave,
Where, all the long and lone daylight,
Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear
Which make thee terrible and dear,
Swift be thy flight!
“Tintern Abbey"
- Wordsworth
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; and that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came,
Unwearied in that service: rather say
With warmer love, oh! with far deeper zeal
Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget,
That after many wanderings, many years
Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,
And this green pastoral landscape, were to me
More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake.