Transcript Romanticism

Romanticism
• 19th century artistic movement that appealed
to emotion rather then reason
• Emphasis on imagination, freedom, and
emotion.
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People 1830
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Romanticism
• Writers
– Victor Hugo- The Three Musketeers and The
Hunchback of Notre Dame.
• Music
– Beethoven
Realism
• 19th Century artistic movement whose aim
was to represent the world as it is.
Gustave Courbet, Stone-Breakers, 1849.
Realism
• Writers
– Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist-lives of factory workers and slum dwellers
including children.
– Victor Hugo
• Moves from Romanticism to Realism with Les
Miserables-life in France of a man who steels and must
hide who he is to continue life after prison.
Impressionism
• Capture the first impression of a scene or
object.
Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant
(Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan
The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse),1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas