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Romantic Writers• Heros were mysterious, melancholoy
and felt out of step with society, sometimes hid a guilty secret and faced a grim destiny.
• Examples: Johann Wolfgang and Alexandre Dumas
• Faust, Three Musketeers, The Hunchback of Nortre Dame.
Sir Walter Scott
Johann Wolfgang
Alexandre Dumas
Romantic Architecture
• Medieval Gothic style for buildings and the look of towns.
Romantic Art• Capture the beauty and power of
nature.
• Painted many subjects from peasants to knights to current events.
• Bright colors conveyed violent energy and emotion.
Eugene Delacroix-Liberty Leading the People
Ah ah!
Romantic Music• Inspired deep emotion.
• Traditional folk melodies glorified a nations past.
Frederic Chopin• Used Polish peasant dances to convey
the sorrows and joys of people living under foreign occupation.
First Orchestra!• Took shape in the 1800’s.
Ludwig von Beethoven(1770-1827)
• First to use orchestra• Wrote from the heatrt conveying intense
emotional struggle.• Admired Napoleon until he crowned himself
emporer.• Produced 9 symphonies total , an opera, and
dozens of small pieces.• 1798-Began to lose hearing. Died in poverty,
angry and depressed.
Realism• Attempt to represent the world as it was
without sentiment.
• Artists were committed to reforming or improving the lives of the less fortunate.
Realist Literature• Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist,
Depicted crime and lives of the poor.
• Victor Hugo: Les Miserable, Depicted how hunger drove a man to crime.
• Emile Zola: Germinal, Depicted warfare in the mining industry.
Charles Dickens
Victor Hugo
Realist Drama• Henrik Ibsen: Doll’s House, Illustrates
how women are caught in a straight jacket of social rules.
Realist Art• Ordinary subjects, especially working
class men and women.
Female Realists• Charlotte Brontes-Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontes-Wuthering Heights
• Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Kate Chopin-The Awakening
HarrietBeecher Stowe Kate Chopin
Photography• Louis Daguerre and William Fox Talbot
produced first successful phtographs.• Stiff portraits of the middle class or
prominent people.• Later used to expose slums and social
ills.• Matthew Brady-Exposed civil war
corpses on the battlefield.