Humanities III exam 2

Romantics were responding to this intellectual era

Enlightenment

Which is NOT a romantic author/artist

Thomas Paine

True or False: The romantics thought sublime objects in nature were awe-inspiring

True

Who first proposes the scientific method

Francis Bacon

Romantics considered imagination to be

a reality forming faculty of perception

Romantics believed truth could be found in

Nature and Self-reflection

Romantics valued

Individualism and genius

Mary Shelley’s mother Mary Wollstonecraft was known for

Advocating for women’s rights

Frankenstein is an epistolary novel, which means that it is written in the form of:

a series of letters

Romantics would likely argue that a monster

Doesnt start as a monster but is turned into one by society

This pioneer of Cubism was heavily influenced by African art

Pablo Picasso

The Dada movement

was a reaction to the nationalism of WWI

was known for “readymades”

the style of marcel duchamp

This artist reduced his shapes to lines and rectangles and primary colors

Piet Mondrian

All of the following artists are surrealists except

jackson pollock

surrealists

sought inspiration in the unconscious mind

were influenced by sigmund freud

st. johns abbey church is in what architecural style

brutalism

jackson pollock’s and willem de kooning’s painting style

expressed internal emotional turmoil

is sometimes called “action painting”

t/f: henry moore’s draped seated woman pays homage to the parthenon frieze

true

andy warhol’s gold marilyn

depicts marilyn monroe in the style of byzantine icon

comments on modern culture’s worship of celebrities

used a publicity photo of marilyn monroe

t/f: the galant style of the 18th century refers to the doctrine of affections, in which music explores a single emotion with great depth

false

regarding the late 18th century influence, it would be most accurate to say that

motzart and haydn influenced eachother

haydn is credited with being the father of the string quartet, the concerto, and

the symphony

a symphony by haydn would typically have the following structure for its four movements

a fast movement, a more moderate movement, a minuet, a fast movement

t/f: one of the new forms of music that developed during the high classical era was the sonata, a multi-movement piece of music designed to be played by a solo instrument or a small instrumental ensemble

true

the sonata allegro form is comprised of three themes: a) development, b) recapitulation, a). you can tell the middle part of a movement in sonata allegro form primarily because

it introduces significant tension with the themes of the beginning part

although mozart and haydn influenced eachother, the video suggests that compared to other composers mozart’s music was more

lyrical, as demonstrated in the singing lines of his various works, including operas

les demoiselles d’avignon

pablo picasso

The Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

The Scream

Edvard Munch

The kiss

Gustav Klimt

At the Moulin Rouge

Toulouse Lautrec

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

The Joy of Life

Francis Bacon

-father of scientific method

-empirical observation replaces authority and tradition

-humans can discover the fixed laws that govern nature

-makes industrial revolution possible

-humans can use their discoveries to shape nature to their purposes

Problems of a clockwork universe

• no mystery, wonder, wildness

• emotions and spontaneity are discounted

• art, music, poetry

• industrial revolution: applying the clockwork logic to the natural world and people

romanticism

• 1780s-1850s

• england and europe

• origin: artists and writers

• william blake

transcendentalism

• 1820s-1840s

• new england

• origin: unitarian

the imagination

• reality forming

• combines images and other sensory objects into a whole

• the primary is unconcious, the secondary is a conscious act of the will

• secondary imagination can create imaginary creatures and worlds

romantic individualism

• romanticism values the individual, especially the exceptional

• lone genius

the marxist response

• marx born in 1818

• gets arrested in college, then gets sent to University of Berlin

• Dad dies, starts studying philosophy

communist manifesto

• historic materialism

• bourgeois and proletarians

• solution= eliminate private property

• not interested in religion

disenchantment

• the supernatural and divine are absent or far away

• humans are alone inside an immanent frame

• marx’s historical materialism

• freud’s wish fulfillment

Consequences of disenchantment

• the double-edged sword of absolute freedom

• in 1984 there’s no deus ex machina that rescues humans from the problems they’ve caused

Post modern mindset

• radical subjectivity of all knowledge

• pushing boundaries for the sake of pushing boundaries

• inspired by nietzsche

• counter to plato (anti-realist)

• no transcendent ground for meaning

• students of suspicion

positives of postmodernism

-avoid naive belief

-recognize subjectivity and bias