6. General observations and connections

Visualunderstanding:

Connectingliteraturetoart

TheEnlightenment(objective)

CompareJonathanSwift,VoltaireandJaneAustenwithJacques-LouisDavid

andJean-Auguste-DominiqueIngresand

JohnFlaxman

Jacques-LouisDavid

Jean-Auguste-DominiqueIngres

JohnFlaxman

TheEnlightenment(objective)

Characteristics:order,clarity,prose,form,logic,

didacticism,satire,objectivist,historical,

political

Romanticism(subjective)

CompareShelly,WordsworthandLordByronwithCasparDavid

Friedrich,EugèneDelacroixandFranciscode

Goya.

Shelly:“OdetotheWestWind”

OwildWestWind, thoubreathofAutumn’s being,Thou, fromwhoseunseenpresencetheleavesdeadAredriven, likeghosts fromanenchanterfleeing,

Wordsworth:“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”

IwanderedlonelyasacloudThatfloatsonhigho'ervalesandhills,WhenallatonceIsawacrowd,Ahost,ofgoldendaffodils;Beside thelake,beneaththetrees,Flutteringanddancinginthebreeze.

LordByron:“SheWalksinBeauty”

Shewalksinbeauty,like thenightOfcloudlessclimesandstarryskies;Andallthat’sbestofdarkandbrightMeetinheraspectandhereyes;Thusmellowed tothattenderlightWhichheaventogaudydaydenies.

CasparDavidFriedrich

EugèneDelacroix

FranciscodeGoya

Romanticism(subjective)

Characteristics:theindividual,emotion,

expression, freedom, love,positivism/negativism,rebellion,innerthought

Realism(objective)–

CompareMarkTwain,StephenCraneandGustaveFlaubertto

GustaveCourbet,EdwardHopperandJean-François

Millet

GustaveCourbet

EdwardHopper

Jean-FrançoisMillet

Realism(objective)–

Characteristics:truthfulrepresentation, everydaylife,showingthingshowtheyare,reactiontosentimentalism

Turnofthecenturyliterature(previouslypointedout)canbecomparedtotheabstractionand

subjectivismseeninart:Picasso,vanGogh,Munch,Chagall,Klee,Dalí,Miró,

etc.

PabloPicasso

VincentvanGogh

EdvardMunch

MarcChagall

PaulKlee

SalvadorDalí

JoanMiró

Avant-gardecharacteristics(subjective):

individualism,abstraction,existentialism,extremeexpression, symbolism,subconsciousideas,experimentalart