Romantic Period Essence Perry

Romantic Movement Romanticism is a period, movement, or style in literature, music, and other arts starting in the late 1700s into the early 1800s, a time when the modern culture in which we now live was first taking form. The Romantic era is the historical period of literature in which modern readers most begin to see themselves and their own conflicts and desires.

Outcomes of Romantic Period ● The rise of nation-states● Increasing geographic ● Social mobility ● People moving to cities ● New technologies● Power● Individualism● Imaginative● Idealization of childhood ● Families, love, nature, and the past

Impressionism:In afternoon tea, Bracquemond used a painting style of quick, visible brush strokes. She put bold colors, and an emphasis on the play of natural light between trees.Brocquemond’s subject for her painting was as much of the modernized woman( woman reading), as the nature and landscape behind her. Like other impressionists, she focused on middle class people doing leisurely activities, such as reading and eating. As you look at the painting you see blending colors, and blurry lines in the painting signature of impressionist paintings.

Marie BracquemondAfternoon Tea

Realism

Realism depicts the world, its events, and people as they really are. There is no personification of people as mythological beings, no one is glorified, no romanticizing anyone or any animals. In Bonheur's painting ordinary herders and animals became the subjects of her painting, she wasn’t glorying anything but ordinary, middle class. The painting style itself is very practical and realistic, the colors are completely accurate with neat even brush strokes.

Ploughing in NeversRosa Bonheur

RomanticismIn Waterhouse, Waterhouse emphasises wind, and it’s force. The painting also gives off a strong emotion of freedom and peacefulness, by the calm colors and images of nature. Waterhouse focused on nature over society and cities, by putting the woman in a meadow with mountains in the background. The painting itself is highly detailed and shows the texture and shape of every object, from the flowers to her hair. This painting clearly shows the beauty of nature and a calming mood, clear trait of romanticism.

Windswept

John William Waterhouse