romanticism/realism

raft of the medusa, gericault

the twenty-eigth of july, liberty leading the people, delacroix

la grande odalisque, ingres

a burial at ornans, courbet

luncheon on the grass, manet

berlioz

french, “dream of the witches sabbath” from symphonie fantastique

schubert

austrian, der erlkonig

chopin

polish, revolutionary étude

wagner

german, “bridal chorus” from lohengrin

* leitmotif: theme music for character that represents their morals/goals in a story

romanticism

1. emotion over reason

2. sensory experience before intellect

3. imagination

4. human personality

5. power of the individual

6. the occult (exotic/diseased)

7. the remote in time/space

transcendentalism

1. philosophical idealism (plato’s forms)

2. spiritual realm

3. god or the life force

4. god is not a super human, but a spirit in us all

5. intuition

6. corruption of culture/society on our intuition

7. individualism- self-reliance/independence

realism

1. life as it is, emphasis on accurate detail

2. reject idealizing conventions

3. contemporary life

4. middle class attitudes

ralph waldo emerson

• american transcendentalist

• wrote self-reliance and nature

• promoted individualism

henry david thoreau

• author of walden, a reflection on simple living in natural surroundings

• advocate for civil disobedience, influencing mlk jr and gandhi

• key transcendentalist

walt whitman

• revolutionary american poet, leaves of grass

• emphasized democracy, the body, and the human spirit

• one of the founders of free verse poetry

louis pasteur

• developed germ theory of disease

• invested pasteurization to prevent food contamination

• created vaccines for rabies and anthrax

l.j.m daguerre

• invented daguerrotype, the first practical photographic process

• pioneer of photography

herman melville

• moby dick

• explored themes of obsession, fate, and human condition

charles baudelaire

• les fleurs du mal and get drunk

• symbolist and modernist

• themes of beauty, decadence, and urban life

emily dickinson

• short, enigmatic poems about death and immortality

• unique poetry structure and slant rhyme

• wore pants, was probably gay, and was cool

johann van goethe

• faust, important german lit

• figure in sturm und drang and romantic movements

• contributed to science and philosophy, esp color theory

emily brontë

• withering heights, a dark/passionate novel

• intense, complex chatacters and gothic atmosphere

• deep psychological insight and poetic prose

william blake

• poetry and visual arts combined in songs of innocence and experience

• mystical visionary who challenged conventional religion and politics

• major romantic figure

robert louis stevenson

• treasure island and strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde

• blended adventure, horror, and psychological themes

eadweard muybridge

• pioneered motion photography with studies of animals and humans in motion

• developed the zoopraxiscope, an early motion-picture projector

• influenced the development of film and animation

leo tolstoy

• war and peace and anna karenina, epic novels exploring human nature

• promoted christian anarchism and nonviolent resistance

• profound on literature, philosophy, and social thought