Chapter 4 section 4Romanticism and Realism in the

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Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature, social criticism and the move away from

classical Europe

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Romanticism• New intellectual movement that

emerges in the late 1700’s

• Based on feelings, emotion and imagination

• Belief that inner feelings were only understood by the person feeling them

• Valued uniqueness of each person

• love of nature and the past

Social Impact• People had a inner drive to know

themselves = a rebellion against the norm

• Grew long hair, beards, wore outrageous clothes to express uniqueness

• Interest in the past led to Neo Gothic(built in the style of the middle ages) style of building

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Romanticism Literature

• Reflected love of the past

• Showed a attraction to the exotic and unfamiliar character = Gothic Literature like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Edgar Allen Poe’s short horror stories

• Writers focused on misunderstood characters who were rejected by society but believed in their own self worth

Romanticism Literature Cont.

• Poetry was looked at as an expression of the soul

• Many writers believed that industrialization would cause people to become alienated from their feelings and nature

Romanticism Music• the composer was able to make people feel

emotions from his music

• Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the greatest romantic composers

• music makes the listener feel horror, pain, fear and terror

Realist

• Realist rejected romanticism and its ideas

• Believed that the world should be viewed realistically

Realist Literature

• Wanted to write about ordinary “normal” people from actual real life situations

• Tried to avoid using emotional language

• Wrote novels rather then poetry

ex: Charles Dickens- focused on stories about the lower & middle classes in Britain during the Industrial Age like Oliver Twist and Christmas Carol

Realist Art

“I have never seen either an angel or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting

them” Courbet

• Sought to show everyday life of ordinary people

• Gustave Courbet- French realist painter who painted scenes from everyday life

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