Download Arts in the Industrial Age - Casillas

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Review:
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What is Industrial Society like?
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Cities
 Working Life?
 Living Conditions?
 Art?
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Not referring to “romance” between people in
a relationship
Romanticism – An artistic style emphasizing
imagination, freedom and emotion.
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Writers, artists, composers, and architects were part
of the Romantic Movement
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Writers: William Wordsworth, William Blake,
Lord Byron
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The Romantic Hero – “A mysterious, melancholy,
person who feels out of step with society”
– Doesn’t fit in with the new Industrial World…
Lord Byron – “My Soul is Dark”
My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear;
And let thy gentle fingers fling
Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear.
If in this heart a hope be dear,
That sound shall charm it forth again:
If in these eyes there lurk a tear,
'Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain.
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But bid the strain be wild and deep,
Nor let thy notes of joy be first:
I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep,
Or else this heavy heart will burst;
For it hath been by sorrow nursed,
And ached in sleepless silence, long;
And now 'tis doomed to know the worst,
And break at once - or yield to song.
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Music
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Ludwig van Beethoven –
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German Composer; composed music to stir deep
emotions (just as poetry was intended to);
 Beethoven was the first composer to fully use the broad
range of instruments in a modern orchestra.
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In the mid-1800s, Realism was a movement to
present the world “as it was,” without the
Romantic emphasis of emotions and
imagination.
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Writers – Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist – A novel that tells the story of a
child surviving poverty, crime, and the
mistreatment of children;
 His writing reflects what society is really like!
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Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
“The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed
upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness,
and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like
death; not death as it shows in shroud and coffin,
but in the guise it wears when life has just
departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but
an instant, fled to Heaven, and the gross air of the
world has not had time to breathe upon the
changing dust it hallowed.”
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1870s – “An artistic movement intended to
capture the first fleeting impression made by
an object on the viewer’s eye.”
Artists:
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Claude Monet
Vincent van Gogh (“postimpressionist”)
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Assignment: You will create a painting ,
drawing, or poem using one of the following
three styles – Romanticism, Realism,
Impressionist
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1. Provide a written description of what style
you choose (Romanticism, Realism,
Impressionism); refer to the textbook pages
217 -221 to review the styles (or your notes)
2. Come up with a title for your
artwork/poem.
3. Provide a written explanation of what your
artwork or poem is about (in addition to
creating an actual painting/drawing or poem).