Romanticism vs. Realism

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1 Romanticism ( ) an artistic movement in reaction to the despair of life during the Industrial Revolution. The Romantic period, which was an escape from despair, can be seen in visual art, music and literature. Romantics valued individual experiences, imagination, freedom and a break from normal expectations of art. Romanticism = idealistic, imaginative, implausible, supernatural, artificial, exotic, complex, unrealistic, dramatic and/or an escape from reality

2 Realism- ( ) was an artistic movement that tended to portray life as it was in reality. Realism is considered to be a response to Romanticism and focused on reality, particularly the unpleasant aspects of life. Realism = truthful, accurate, normal, unpleasant aspects of life, ordinary people, all classes of people, and/or focus on struggles of everyday life

3 Romanticism: idealistic, imaginative, implausible, supernatural, artificial, exotic, complex, unrealistic, dramatic and/or an escape from reality Realism: truthful, normal, unpleasant aspects of life, ordinary people, all classes of people, and/or focus on struggles of everyday life Over the next several slides, you will be presented with examples or visual art, music and literature that is associated with either Romanticism or Realism. Can you tell the difference? Jacques-Louis David s Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800) Honoré Daumier s The Third Class Wagon

4 Realism: truthful, normal, unpleasant aspects of life, ordinary people, all classes of people, and/or focus on struggles of everyday life REALISM Hubert von Herkomer, Hard Times 1885 Why? This depiction focuses on a working class family and their unpleasant, real-life struggles to survive

5 Romanticism: idealistic, imaginative, implausible, supernatural, artificial, exotic, complex, unrealistic, dramatic and/or an escape from reality ROMANTICISM Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii, 1833 Why? Even though the Volcano that destroyed Pompeii was a real historical event, this depiction is romantic in that it is imaginative, complex, exotic and dramatic.

6 ROMANTICISM Beethoven s 5 th Symphony, be.com/watch?v =_4IRMYuE1hI Beethoven s 5 th Symphony could be described as imaginative, dramatic, complex and an escape from reality

7 Workers performing strenuous work in a field REALISM Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857

8 A novel about Ichabod Crane, featuring superstition, ghosts, headless horsemen and suspense Fictional, supernatural, imaginative, escape from reality ROMANTICISM Washington Irving s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820

9 A novel about the turmoil in London and Paris that eventually led to the French and American Revolutions Real-life ordeals, focus on different classes REALISM Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

10 ROMANTICISM Thomas Jones, The Bard, 1774 A bard is an old English word for a poet or playwright. This image depicts the 1283 event in which English King Edward I (same king from the Braveheart story) conquered Wales and ordered all the bards to be slaughtered.

11 A book written in 1826 about the struggles of a handful of Mohican warriors caught up in the French and Indian War (1757) ROMANTICISM James Fennimore Cooper s Last of the Mohicans, 1826 Fictional, imaginative, dramatic

12 Real life struggles of workers REALISM Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga,

13 ROMANTICISM Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People 1830 Idealistic, imaginative

14 Ordinary activities of a worker (laundress) REALISM Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Laundress, 1761

15 ROMANTICISM Mozart s Symphony #40, be.com/watch?v =-hjf4zffkoi could be described as imaginative, dramatic, complex and an escape from reality

16 REALISM Ilya Repin, Religious Procession in Kursk Province, Dirty, dusty, poor and crippled children at the forefront

17 REALISM Ilya Repin, Leo Tolstoy, 1887 Ilya Repin s portrait of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy Ordinary, normal, real-life (a famous author with a book in a chair)

18 REALISM Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869 An 1869 novel detailing the French Invasion of Russia in the early 1800s and the effect on Russian society, as seen from the perspective of five Russian aristocratic families. Real-life struggles of life in Russia

19 ROMANTICISM Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850, "The Ninth Wave" People clinging to debris from a ship the morning after a shipwreck. The warm tones represents hope for survival. This painting is sometimes called "the most beautiful painting in Russia. Romanticized, idealized, dramatized

20 ROMANTICISM Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818 Romanticized, idealized, dramatized