ROMANTICISM 1800 1860 The Age of Reason or
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ROMANTICISM (1800 -1860)
The Age of Reason or The Enlightenment Founded on Deism Logic Inalienable rights It also brought Industrialization, growth of cities, and factories American expansion (Lewis and Clark and Manifest Destiny) More encounters with Native Americans Albert Bierstadt
ROMANTICISM: THE MOVEMENT Question: What comes to mind or what do you associate with the term “Romanticism” or “romantic”? Definition. Romantic: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a style of literature and art that encourages freedom of treatment, emphasizes imagination, emotion, and introspection, and often celebrates nature, the ordinary person, and freedom of the spirit.
Romanticism: a reaction to the Age of Reason Realism Patrician Classicism Romanticism Idealism/Utopia Glorification of the common man Dominion over the Recognition of the Native American nobility of the primitive Logic, always facts to Imagination to bring about faith and hope counter fear and doubt
Characteristics of Romanticism § The predominance § Individualism of imagination over § Idealization of rural reason and formal life rules § Enthusiasm for the § Love of nature wild, irregular, or grotesque in nature § An interest in the § Enthusiasm for the past uncivilized or § Mysticism “natural”
The Five I’s v. Imagination v. Intuition v. Idealism v. Inspiration v. Individuality
The City was a Place of. . . §The Rationalists saw the city as a place of industry, success, self realization, and civilization. §The Romantics saw the city as a place of poor work conditions, moral ambiguity, corruption, and death.
The Journey Romanticism was often seen as a journey. § The journey from the city to the country § The journey from rational thought to the imagination
Literature Folktales, regional writer Washington Irving The “Noble Savage” James Fennimore Cooper American Novelists looked to westward expansion and the frontier for inspiration.
The Arts v Romanticism was a movement across all the arts: visual art, music, and literature. v All of the arts embraced themes prevalent in the Middle Ages: chivalry, courtly love. v Shakespeare came back in style.
Visual Arts: Examples Neoclassical Art Romantic Art
Thomas Cole, “The Falls of Kaaterskill” (1826)
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, 1836)
Asher Durand, “Kindred Spirits” (1848)
Frederic Edwin Church, “The Natural Bridge” (1852)
Alfred Bierstadt, “Emigrants Crossing the Plains” (1867)
Alfred Bierstadt, “Looking Up the Yosemite Valley” (ca. 1865 -67)
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