Transcript Romanticism and Realism in the Western World

Chapter 4 section 4
Romanticism and Realism in the
Western World
Standard 10.3 #7
Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and
literature, social criticism and the move away from
classical Europe
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Romanticism
• New intellectual movement that
emerges in the late 1700’s
• Based on feelings, emotion and
imagination
• Belief that inner feelings were only
understood by the person feeling them
• Valued uniqueness of each person
• love of nature and the past
Social Impact
• People had a inner drive to know
themselves = a rebellion against the norm
• Grew long hair, beards, wore outrageous
clothes to express uniqueness
• Interest in the past led to Neo Gothic(built
in the style of the middle ages) style of
building
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Romanticism Literature
• Reflected love of the past
• Showed a attraction to the exotic and
unfamiliar character = Gothic Literature like
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Edgar Allen
Poe’s short horror stories
• Writers focused on misunderstood
characters who were rejected by society but
believed in their own self worth
Romanticism Literature Cont.
• Poetry was looked at as an expression of the
soul
• Many writers believed that industrialization
would cause people to become alienated
from their feelings and nature
Romanticism Music
• the composer was able to make people feel
emotions from his music
• Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the
greatest romantic composers
• music makes the listener feel horror, pain,
fear and terror
Realist
• Realist rejected romanticism and its ideas
• Believed that the world should be viewed
realistically
Realist Literature
• Wanted to write about ordinary “normal”
people from actual real life situations
• Tried to avoid using emotional language
• Wrote novels rather then poetry
ex: Charles Dickens- focused on stories
about the lower & middle classes in Britain
during the Industrial Age like Oliver Twist
and Christmas Carol
Realist Art
“I have never seen either an angel or
goddesses, so I am not interested in painting
them” Courbet
• Sought to show everyday life of ordinary
people
• Gustave Courbet- French realist painter who
painted scenes from everyday life
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