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When did the Romantic era occur? What events impacted it?
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Began approx 1820 (1830) through 20th c. Halts during the first 2 decades of 20thc, because of WWI. The industrial Revolution helps romanticism
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Who was a good berometer of the period? What was the focus?
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Rousseau is good berometer of what the period is about: focus on nature - God and nature; emotional nature of the heart
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What was the movement called that occured in Germany as well as the world? What did it involve?
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Sturmendeng (Germany) - intellectual decision by art world to incorporate more feeling in work
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Who was Shopenhaur? What did he believe?
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German philosopher with pessimistiv view of reality where creation was escape
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Who hoped to create a classless society? Where is the quote, "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability," from?
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Carl Marx and Frederick Ingles. Communist Manufesto, 1848.
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What was Charles Darwin known for? Mendel?
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Darwin - evolution. Mendel - mechanical steam engine invention.
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Who created Social Darwinism ("survival of the fittest")? What is it characterized by?
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Herbert Spencer; characterized by revolution against societal order in religion, nature of evil
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Who wrote a book saying "The heart has its reason which reason does not know?"
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Blaise Pascal
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- Contemporary of Jacques-Louis David. both had very specific agenda with energies.
- Characterized as focusing work on psychological creativity of the arts. - commentator for society at large |
Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
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- Part of a group of paintings called Caprichos. - Imagination without Reason opens the doors and windows for Monsters. |
"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"
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- Goya was adopted by the first family of Spain; and he rendered a painting of them.
- The composition of faces and presentation of clothes may mask Goya's thoughts that they could easily be ridiculed. |
"The Family of Charles IV"
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- Napoleon made his move both East and West & came into Spain.
- Goya though the French would help and not dominate, but they ended up being equally as repressive as the Spanish gov't. - Barbaric execution of Madrid citizens by French soldiers. - Has aspects of religious art, but the figures are martyrs dying for liberty and not for entrance into Heaven. |
"The Third of May."
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- Goya lost his mistress and his wife at once, so he retreated to his villa.
- He covered the walls of the villa with nightmarish painting. - Portrays man's inhumanity and desperacy of life in society at this time - Iriation explosion of art, but confirms his role as Romantic artist. |
"Saturn Devouring his Children"
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- Influenced by David, but moved aside from classical appearnace and towards sometheing more emotionally appealing.
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Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767-1824)
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- Inspiration from poet Chateaubriand.
- Soft celebration of Indian girl who commits suicide rather than submitting to her lover. - Combination of exoticism and religion |
"The Funeral Atala"
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