Download Clark Monday 1/4/11 Notes HW: None / Extra Credit Assignment

Clark
Monday 1/4/11
Notes
HW: None / Extra Credit Assignment – Due 1/14
Agenda:
 Warm-Up #59
 Realism – The Basics
 Extra Credit
Warm-Up #59: Are you a realist or an idealist?
Realism – The Basics (1830s-1900ish)
 Felt the world should be viewed realistically.
 Rejected romanticism but did not necessarily rely on reason.
 Wanted to show ordinary characters in actual life.
 Used precise description and avoided motional language.
 Preferred novels over poems.
 Wanted to show hardships of all kinds of people.
 Some saw this as displays of “ugliness”.
 Some used Realism as a form of Social (?)
Your turn to identify
 Use what you have learned about these two schools of art and identify each of the following
examples as an example of romanticism or realism.
Homoré Daumier, The Chess Players, 1863. (Realism or Romanticism?)
Goya, The Third of May, 1814 (Realism or Romanticism?)
Joseph M. W. Turner, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage -Italy, 1832 (Realism or Romanticism?)
Edward Degas, Women Ironing 1884-1886 (Realism or Romanticism?)
Poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – by William Wordsworth, 1802 (Realism or Romanticism?)
Poem “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert, 1857 (Realism or Romanticism?)
Music “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” written by James A. Bland (Realism or Romanticism?)
Music “The Ride of the Valkyries” written by Richard Wagner (Realism or Romanticism?)
Extra Credit Assignment!!!
Due: 1/14
Create your own piece of Romantic or Realist art, literature, poetry, or music. Think about the
definition of each genre and the time period that it was created in and come up with something that
could fit into that genre and time period.
1-10 extra credit points
Added to your industrial Revolution Test