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Romantic Period
Romanticism
Romanticism originated in the second half
of the 18th century.
Romanticism was a reaction to the
Industrial Revolution.
The movement validated strong emotion as
an authentic source of aesthetic
experience, placing new emphasis on such
emotions as trepidation, horror and terror
and awe—especially that which is
experienced in confronting the sublimity of
untamed nature and its picturesque
qualities, both new aesthetic categories.
Romanticism
It started as an artistic and intellectual
movement that emphasized a
revulsion against established values
(social order and religion).
Romanticism exalted individualism,
subjectivism, irrationalism,
imagination, emotions and nature emotion over reason and senses over
intellect.
Romanticism Vocab.
Aesthetic- is a branch of philosophy dealing with
the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the
creation and appreciation of beauty.
Sturm and Drang movement- conventionally
translated as "Storm and Stress", is a protoRomantic movement in German literature and
music taking place from the late 1760s through the
early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and, in
particular, extremes of emotion were given free
expression in reaction to the perceived constraints
of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and
associated aesthetic movements.
Romanticism Vocab
Hudson River School (1835 - 1870)Hudson River School was the first
American school of landscape
painting active from 1835-1870. The
subjects of their art were romantic
spectacles from the Hudson River
Valley and upstate New York.
Romantic Art
In a revived clash between color and design, the
expressiveness and mood of color, emphasized in
the new prominence of the brushstroke and
impasto the artist's free handling of paint, which
tended to be repressed in neoclassicism.
Romantic artists believed in the ideal that Nature
is powerful and will eventually overcome the
transient creations of men.
American artists tried to separate themselves from
European artists by depicting unique American
scenes and landscapes.
Romantic Art cont.
Romantic artists were fascinated by
the nature, the genius, their passions
and inner struggles, their moods,
mental potentials, the heroes.
Romantic Artists
Hudson River School
Albert Bierstadt
Thomas Cole
American Romanticism
John Singleton Copley
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Edward Hicks
Gilbert Stuart
Romantic Artists
British Romanticism
William Blake
Joseph Mallord William Turner
French
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Eugene Delacroix
Theodore Gericault
Thomas Cole
The Course of Empire
Distant View of Niagara Falls
The Garden of Eden
John Singleton Copley
Watson and the Shark
The Return of Neptune
Paul Revere
William Blake
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies
Dancing
The Ghost of a Flea
Ancient of Days
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Baronne de Rothschild
La Grande Odalisque
Romanticism Music
Is a term describing a style of Western
Classical music.
While the Classical era had strict laws of
balance and restraint, the Romantic era
moved away from that by allowing artistic
freedom, experimentation, and creativity.
The music of this time period was very
expressive, and melody became the
dominant feature.
Romantic Music Cont.
Composers even used this expressive
means to display nationalism . This
became a driving force in the late
Romantic period, as composers used
elements of folk music to express
their cultural identity.
There was the increased use of
dissonance and extended use of
chromaticism .
Romantic Music Cont.
One of the new forms was the symphonic
poem, which was an orchestral work that
portrayed a story or had some kind of
literary or artistic background to it.
Another was the art song, which was a
vocal musical work with tremendous
emphasis placed on the text or the
symbolical meanings of words within the
text.
Romantic Music Cont.
Opera became increasingly popular, as it
continued to musically tell a story and to
express the issues of the day. Some of the
themes that composers wrote about were
the escape from political oppression, the
fates of national or religious groups, and
the events which were taking place in far
off settings or exotic climates. This allowed
an element of fantasy to be used by
composers.
The Romantic era produced many
more composers whose names and
music are still familiar and popular
today: Brahms, Tchaikovsky,
Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, and
Wagner are perhaps the most wellknown, but there are plenty of others
who may also be familiar, including
Strauss, Verdi, Liszt, Mendelssohn,
Puccini, and Mahler.