Romantic+Art

Romantic Art by Trevor Muehring __Characteristics__ · Reaction against the Enlightenment’s preoccupation with reason in discovering truth · Stressed importance of intuition, feeling, emotion, and imagination · //Sorrows of the Young Werther// (model for all Romantics) · Individualism (unique traits of each individual) · Desire to follow their inner drives · Theme of the individual’s conflict with society __Romantic Novelists, Poets, Artists, and Musicians__ · Thomas Carlyle (historical events were determined by the deeds of heroes) · //Geist// (spirit that made people unique) · Walter Scott (//Ivanhoe//) · Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley (//Frankenstein//) · Percy Bysshe Shelley (//Prometheus Unbound//; poem about revolt against the things that oppress the people) · Lord Byron (//Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage//) · William Wordsworth (love of nature; nature contained a force that a poet could read and learn from) · Caspar David Friedrich (//Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon//; liked to depict nature overpowering humanity) · Joseph Malford William Turner (landscapes and seascapes; allowed objects to melt into their surroundings) · Eugene Delacroix (//The Death of// //Sardanapalus//; exotic use of light and patches of interrelated color) · Beethoven (//Eroica//; uncontrolled rhythms) · Hector Berlioz (//Symphonie fantastique//; founder of program music) __ Revival of Religion __ · Catholicism revived · Chateaubriand (//Genius of Christianity//; “Bible of Romanticism”) · Protestantism revived in the Awakening

Spielvogel, Jackson J. "Culture in an Age of Reaction and Revoultion: The Mood of Romanticism." //Western Civilization//. 4th ed. Stamford: Clark Baxter, 1999. 636-641. Print.