Quiz pp. 637-640

1. Who were Gustave Flaubert, William Thackeray, and Charles Dickens?

2. What was the artistic style that followed Romanticism?3. Who were Gustave Courbet and Jean-Francois Millet?4. What German composer transformed opera into “music

drama” in the 19th century and composed the Ring Cycle?

Quiz answers

1. Writers/novelists2. Realism3. Artists/painters4. Richard Wagner

REALISM1. A new materialistic

outlook in the arts after 1850

2. Rejection of Romanticism

3. New style of painting and literature A Norman Milkmaid at Greville –

Jean Francois Millet

THE REALIST NOVEL1. Deals with ordinary

characters not strange romantic heroes

2. Avoids flowery and sentimental language

3. Use careful observation and accurate description in their writing

4. Examine social issues

Gustave Flaubert1. Leading French

novelist of the 1850-1860’s

2. Master of the realist novel

3. Madame Bovary 1857 – contempt for bourgeois life/smugness and hypocrisy of the middle class

Charles Dickens1. British realist novelist

2. Wrote numerous classic novels

3. Focused on middle and lower class life

4. Set in the early industrial age

5. David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens – the greatest 19th century British novelist

Realism in Art

1. Depict everyday life of ordinary people – peasants, workers, prostitutes

2. Attempt at photorealism

3. Natural environment

Gustave Courbet & Jean-Francois Millet

The Gleaners – Jean Francois MilletRegular Folks

Courbet self portrait – “I have never seen angels or goddesses, soI am not interested in painting them.”

Music – The Twilight of Romanticism

Richard Wagner

1. German composer

2. Created a German national opera

3. Dramatic music = music + theater/drama

4. Gesamkunstwerk = total work of art

5. Used German epic tales and myths from the past as his themes

Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–83). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied