Transcript Romanticism Art & Literature

Romanticism Art &
Literature
By: Alexis Marie Salas
Walter W. Stiern Middle School
Ms.Marshall
2009/2010
HSS 7.11
The Romantic Movement
• Romanticism began in Germany and England in the
1770s.
• It had spread throughout Europe by the 1820s.
• Over sea, not long after, Romanticism spread to the
United States.
• It spread from art into literature and philosophy
• The Romantic Movement were influential in the
development of Symbolism and later Expressionism and
Surrealism.
Artist of Romanticism
• Artists held personal spirit and creativity
above formal training.
• Romantic artists believed that imagination was
superior to reason and beauty.
• They were interested in anything exotic,
mysterious, remote, occult, or satanic.
• They loved and worshipped nature and were
dedicated to examining human personality and
moods.
Symbolism and Myth :
• Were given great prominence in
the Romantic conception of art.
• Romantic view: Symbols were the
human aesthetic correlatives of
nature’s typical language.
• Myth: as symbolic narrative
• Some of it may have been the
request to let out the
“inexpressible” through the
available resources of language
that led to symbol at one take
and myth at another.
Emotion:
• Was evocation of strong, irrational
emotions… particularly horror.
• Gothic writers evoked all manner of irrational
scenes designed to horrify and amaze.
• Writers generally also prized the more tender
sentiments of affection, sorrow, and romantic
longing.
Joseph Mallord
William Turner
• Turner was born in London on April
23, 1775.
• He went to school at Royal Academy
of Arts and traveled widely
throughout his career.
• Turner became professor of
perspective at Royal Academy of
Arts.
• He died in 1851 in London.
John Singleton
Copley
• He was born in Boston in the year of 1738.
• He was born to Irish immigrant Richard and
Mary Copley.
• John started painting portraits when he was a
teenager.
• Copley was married to Susanna Farnham Clarke.
• The Copley couple had six kids in their 45-years
of being married.
• He went out of fashion and died, forgotten, and
bankrupt in 1815, London.
William Blake
• He was an English painter,
engraver and poet.
• Born November 28, 1757, Blake
lived in London most of his life.
• Since seven years old he “saw” God
and angels.
• His work, still obscure, suggests a
new version of Christianity.
• He died in London on August 12,
1827.
Gerard Ter Borch
• Born in Zwolle, 1617, son of a
painter, Gerard Ter Borch was a
Dutch painter
• From 1648 to 1651 Ter Borch was
in Madrid.
• He worked in the realistic
tradition of Frans Hals, Jan
Vermeer, and other Dutch
painters.
• He died in 1681.
Bibliography
•www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanti
cism.html
•wwar.com/masters/movements/romanticis
m.html
• http://www.huntfor.com/index.htm
•http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english
/melani/cs6/rom.html