Art Trends

1814-1914

Early 1800’s

1800-1850

ROMANTICISM!

Romanticism

• Backlash against the Enlightenment

• Backlash against early Industrialization

• Pro-Religion

MID-1800sThe Reaction Against Romanticism ??

Industrialism full swing. Cities.

REALISTIC portrayal of human suffering

Realism

Courbet’s The Stonebreakers

Realism• Industrialism full swing. Cities.

• REALISTIC portrayal of human suffering

• Courbet and Millet

Realism 1855Fernand Desnoyers

“Realism is the true depiction of objects . . . We must admit that (without being an apologist for

ugliness and evil) realism has the right to represent whatever exists and whatever we see . . .

Realism 1855Fernand Desnoyers

. . . Now no one is denied the right to like what is false, ridiculous, or faded and to call it the ideal and poetry; but . . .

Realism 1855Fernand Desnoyers

. . . it is permissible to deny that this mythology is our world, in which it is perhaps high time we took a look around.”

Millet’s Gleaners

Charles Dickens

Hard Times

David Copperfield

Oliver Twist

Great Expectations

3. Analyze the problems and opportunities associated with the rapid urbanization of western Europe in the 19th century. (2007)

Describe the physical transformation of European cities in the second half of the nineteenth century and analyze the social consequences of this transformation. (1996)