Romantic Period

Romanticism

Romanticism originated in the second half of the 18th century.Romanticism was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror and terror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories.

Romanticism

It started as an artistic and intellectual movement that emphasized a revulsion against established values (social order and religion). Romanticism exalted individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect.

Romanticism Vocab.

Aesthetic- is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.Sturm and Drang movement- conventionally translated as "Storm and Stress", is a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements.

Romanticism Vocab

Hudson River School (1835 - 1870)-Hudson River School was the first American school of landscape painting active from 1835-1870. The subjects of their art were romantic spectacles from the Hudson River Valley and upstate New York.

Romantic Art

In a revived clash between color and design, the expressiveness and mood of color, emphasized in the new prominence of the brushstroke and impasto the artist's free handling of paint, which tended to be repressed in neoclassicism.Romantic artists believed in the ideal that Nature is powerful and will eventually overcome the transient creations of men. American artists tried to separate themselves from European artists by depicting unique American scenes and landscapes.

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 Romantic artists were fascinated by the nature, the genius, their passions and inner struggles, their moods, mental potentials, the heroes.

Romantic Artists

Hudson River SchoolAlbert Bierstadt

Thomas Cole

American Romanticism John Singleton Copley

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Edward Hicks

Gilbert Stuart

Romantic Artists

British RomanticismWilliam Blake

Joseph Mallord William Turner

FrenchJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Eugene Delacroix

Theodore Gericault

Thomas Cole

The Course of Empire

Distant View of Niagara Falls

The Garden of Eden

John Singleton Copley

Watson and the Shark

The Return of Neptune

Paul Revere

William Blake

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies

Dancing

The Ghost of a Flea

Ancient of Days

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Baronne de Rothschild

La Grande Odalisque

Romanticism Music

Is a term describing a style of Western Classical music.

While the Classical era had strict laws of balance and restraint, the Romantic era moved away from that by allowing artistic freedom, experimentation, and creativity.

The music of this time period was very expressive, and melody became the dominant feature.

Romantic Music Cont.

Composers even used this expressive means to display nationalism . This became a driving force in the late Romantic period, as composers used elements of folk music to express their cultural identity. There was the increased use of dissonance and extended use of chromaticism .

Romantic Music Cont.

One of the new forms was the symphonic poem, which was an orchestral work that portrayed a story or had some kind of literary or artistic background to it.

Another was the art song, which was a vocal musical work with tremendous emphasis placed on the text or the symbolical meanings of words within the text.

Romantic Music Cont.

Opera became increasingly popular, as it continued to musically tell a story and to express the issues of the day. Some of the themes that composers wrote about were the escape from political oppression, the fates of national or religious groups, and the events which were taking place in far off settings or exotic climates. This allowed an element of fantasy to be used by composers.

The Romantic era produced many more composers whose names and music are still familiar and popular today: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, and Wagner are perhaps the most well-known, but there are plenty of others who may also be familiar, including Strauss, Verdi, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Puccini, and Mahler.