romanticism in art and literature. romanticism is defined as: an artistic and intellectual movement...

Romanticism in Art and Literature

Romanticism is defined as:

• An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe.

• Late 18th century• A reaction to Neoclassicism

(which was unemotional and strict, and a revival of the ancient Greek ideas of art)

• Characterized by interest in:–Nature–Individual's expression of emotion and imagination

–Departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism

–Rebellion against established social rules and conventions.

–The supernatural and the occult

Romanticism is:

In Romanticist Art, we see:• The sometimes beautiful, sometimes

horrific, but always awesome. characteristics of nature.

• Anti-industrialization (new technology).

• The country setting as idealistic.• Importance of patriotism.• The exploration of Christian

unknowns.• Fascination with foreign lands.

Why are these paintings and poems

romantic?

As a class, discuss how the works of art display romanticism, using the

characteristics that we have discussed.

Ancient of Days (1794)

William Blake

The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)

Caspar David Friedrich

Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819) Theodore Gericault

Execution of the Defenders of Madrid (1808, 1814) Francisco de Goya

The Witches' Sabbath (1797-98)

Francisco de Goya

Saturn Devouring One of His Children

(1821-23)

Francisco de Goya

Women in Algiers in Their Apartment (1834)

By Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People (1830)

By Eugene Delacroix

Abbey in an Oak Forest

by Caspar David Friedrich

On Board a Sailing Ship

By Caspar David Friedrich

The Cross in the Mountain

by Caspar David Friedrich

The Hay-Wain (1821) by John Constable

The Nightmare (The Incubus)

Henry Fuseli (1781)

Rain, Steam, and Speed (1844) by Joseph Mallard William Turner

The Slave Ship (1840) Joseph Mallard William Turner

Hadleigh Castle (1829) by John Constable

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !A savage place ! as holy and enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover !

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced :

Excerpt from Kubla Khan

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Excerpt from

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

by William Wordsworth

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

She Walks in Beauty

By Lord Byron

A flower was offered to me,Such a flower as May never bore;But I said "I've a pretty rose tree,"

And I passed the sweet flower o'er.

Then I went to my pretty rose tree,To tend her by day and by night;

But my rose turned away with jealousy,And her thorns were my only delight.

My Pretty Rose Tree

William Blake

Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And secrecy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace seal'd,The human heart its hungry gorge.

A Divine Image

By William Blake

Happy is England! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own;

To feel no other breezes than are blown Through its tall woods with high romances blent:

Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian, and an inward groan

To sit upon an Alp as on a throne, And half forget what world or worldling meant.

An excerpt from Happy is England

By John Keats

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