Download Cultural Life: Romanticism

By Andy Wilder, Justin Martin, David Morgenstern, and Riley Newell
Period 4/5
2-7-05
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The Characteristics of Romanticism
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Romantic writers emphasized emotion and sentiment
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Believed that these inner feelings were understandable only to the
person experiencing them
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Many romantics also possessed an interest in the past
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Revived medieval gothic architecture
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Novels of Walter Scott became bestsellers, such as Ivanhoe, it
focused on the clash between Norman and Saxon knights
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Many romantics had an attraction to the unfamiliar and exotic
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Gave rise to so called "gothic" literature, such as Frankenstein and
Poe's horror stories
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Poetry was more important than any other literature
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Visual arts were also deeply affected
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Romantic art protected the principles of classicism
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Romantic abandoned classic restraint for warmth, emotion,
movement
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To many romantics, music was the most romantic of the arts,
because
it enabled the composer to probe deeply into human emotions
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Music historians have called 18th century an age of classicism and
19th an age of romanticism
•During the Scientific Revolution the intellectual developments nearly preserved the
educated elite, resulting in few practical benefits.
•The industrial Revolution renewed interest in basic scientific research. By the 1830’s
new discoveries led to many practical benefits and caused a greater impact on
European life.
•In Biology the Frenchman Louis Pasteur came up with the germ theory of disease.
•In Chemistry the Russian Dmitri Mendeleev made the periodic table of elements.
•The Briton Michael Faraday made a primitive generator, laying the foundation for
electricity.
•The popularity of Scientific and technological achievements caused a widespread
belief in the scientific method. This undermined the faith of many people. There was
an increased amount of secularization.
•Charles Darwin Published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
(Evolution, Survival of the Fittest).
•Realism was a new style of painting that spread to literature and rejected
Romanticism. They used ordinary people from everyday life. They avoided
emotions. They wrote novels instead of poems.
•Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) of France was the lead Realism novelist. He
wrote Madame Bovary which was a description of barren provincial life in
France.
•Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a famous artist of the Realist School. He
painted what he’s seen. He painted The Stonebreakers in 1849 which has
road workers breaking stones to build a road.
•Many considered Realism as a “cult of ugliness.”
•In the 1800’s The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
transformed the world and put Western Europe into a leading position for
the world.
•The Scientific method led to new machines that allowed the Western
world to devastate and control other areas of the world.
•The national state was where people placed their loyalty. Wars were for
the unified nation-state which led to fierce competition.
•New technology and science led to the optimistic view that they were on
the eve of a new age of greatness.
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•Romanticism began a major cultural movement that emphasized
emotion and feeling
•A Scientific revolution began that expanded the public’s knowledge
of basic science, printing of scientific books increased as well.
Evolution also developed by Darwin
•Realism in art also became very popular with large amounts of
artists, little fantasy in paintings
•French Revolution and industrial revolution transformed the world
in to a completely different place of new technology and innovation