Transcript Technology, Art, and Culture During the 19th Century

Technology, Art, and Culture
During the 19th Century
Scientific Advances, Romanticism,
and Realism
Scientific Advances
 Louis Pasteur: Germ Theory of Disease
 Improved the quality of life for people living in
industrial cities
 Michael Faraday: Electrical Generator
 Produce electricity through steam power
 Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species
 Evolution, natural selection
 Social Darwinism
 Scientific advances caused by industrial revolution
reduced the influence of religion: secularization
Romanticism
 Has nothing to do with “romance” or love
 Importance of emotion and feelings rather than
reason or intellect
 Importance of the individual, especially the heroic
individual in an exotic location
 Importance of nature, not controlled by man
 Response to . . . .
 How linked to industrial revolution?
Examples: Delacroix, Liberty
Leading the People
Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog
The Third of May 1808
Realism
 Late 19th Century
 Represent ordinary people and the “real”
world the way it actually is
 Response to . . . .
 How linked to industrial revolution?
The Stone Breakers
The Salmon Fisher