Answer the following based on the image above:•What is the artist trying to emphasize in this painting?•What can we tell about art during this period based on this painting?•Based on your knowledge of social studies, how is this painting different from the art during early periods of US history/European art?

Nationalism in Nationalism in Literature & ArtLiterature & Art

1801-18501801-1850

Noah WebsterNoah Webster•America should record its America should record its own form of English.own form of English.

•Became obvious as Became obvious as nationalism grew.nationalism grew.

•American Dictionary of the American Dictionary of the English LanguageEnglish Language was was published in 1828.published in 1828.

Noah Webster

Literary Literary RenaissanceRenaissance

• Occurred in the early to mid 1800s.Occurred in the early to mid 1800s.• Americans beginning to form national and Americans beginning to form national and

regional identity – wanted to write about it.regional identity – wanted to write about it.• Romanticism:Romanticism: artistic, literary, and artistic, literary, and

philosophical movement that began in philosophical movement that began in Europe, which greatly influenced authors Europe, which greatly influenced authors during this period.during this period.

• Commitment to individual experiencesCommitment to individual experiences• Inherent goodness of the individualInherent goodness of the individual• Feelings & emotions instead of reason & intellectFeelings & emotions instead of reason & intellect• Gave rise to transcendentalism - emphasizing a personal Gave rise to transcendentalism - emphasizing a personal

religious experience with God & naturereligious experience with God & nature

•TranscendentalistsTranscendentalists– inherent goodness of both people and nature.

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual.

•Other Romantic authorsOther Romantic authors– wrote of American & individual wrote of American & individual

identity and American culture; identity and American culture; individual experiences individual experiences

TranscendentalistsTranscendentalists• Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature

(1836)• Henry David Thoreau – must fight the

pressure to conform to society• Mark Twain-Huckleberry Finn and

Tom Sawyer; exploring the struggle between individual identity and pressures of society

• Think of them as hippies of the 1800s.

Emerson

Thoreau

Romantic AuthorsRomantic Authors

•Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne – – The The Scarlet LetterScarlet Letter–Ideas of Puritan societyIdeas of Puritan society

•Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe –Terror and MysteryTerror and Mystery

Romantic authors Romantic authors cont.cont.

•James Fennimore Cooper – Last of the Mohicans–Wrote of Native Americans & the American frontier/landscape

•Washington Irving – “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Alex de TocquevilleAlex de Tocqueville•Not American but wanted to write about it.

•Wrote Democracy in America – told of his journeys through America

•Explained how the social conditions impacted both the individual and gov’t

ArtArt

•Hudson River SchoolHudson River School—group —group of artists beginning in the of artists beginning in the 1820s known for 1820s known for landscape landscape paintingspaintings, led by , led by Thomas Thomas ColeCole

•George Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb Bingham—art —art of ordinary Americansof ordinary Americans

Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole, View from View from Mount HolyokeMount Holyoke, 1836, 1836

George Caleb Bingham, George Caleb Bingham, Raftsmen Playing CardsRaftsmen Playing Cards, ,

18471847

Literature

Pamphlet

Pamphlet Instructions

• You are to make a pamphlet of the major figures (artist & writers) of this time period. Foldable must include: – Name of individual– Major Works (books, pieces of art, etc.)– Significance– 1 or more images/illustrations– Works cited (list of websites where you got

your information)

• Choose ONE of the following:– Washington Irving– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow– Ralph Waldo Emerson – Henry David Thoreau– Margaret Fuller– Edgar Allan Poe– Thomas Cole– Albert Bierstadt– George Caleb Bingham– Frederic Edwin Church– Thomas Moran– Walt Whitman