The Romantic Vision Source: Cannistraro and Merriman

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The Romantic Vision

• Source Cannistraro and Merriman

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Romanticism.why?

• Remember, 18th century.all about human reason
• Romanticism is about intuition and emotion

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Romanticism

• Individualism
• Belief in studying ones inner drives and
  personal traits
• Rebellious against middle class expectations

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Romanticisim

• A Romantic would.
• Be engrossed in his own solitude
• cite poetry to himself or his friends
• fight for ones liberty
• Reject reason
• Ponder their dreams and subconscious thoughts

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest
moments of the happiest and best minds."  --Persy
Bysshe Shelley
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Characteristics of Romanticism

• Natural universe was mysterious world of its own
• Believed in remoteness of time or place
• Inspired by ancient British Druids and medieval
  knights

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Political views of Romanticism

• Democratic
• Lord Byron and Delacroix supported liberalism
• HOWEVER
• Didnt particularly care for the middle class

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Romanticism in Germany

• Von Goethe (1749-1832)
• Faust
• Character makes a pact with the devil in quest
  for knowledge
• Love for a woman led him to suicide

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Spirit of the AgeEnglish Romantic Poets
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

• I am the eye which the Universe
• Beholds itself and knows itself divine
• All harmony of instrument or verse,
• All prophecy, all medicine is mine,
• All light of art or nature_to my son
• Victory and praise in its own right belong

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Married Mary Wollstonecraft (named after her
  mother)
• Expelled from Oxford for atheist beliefs

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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

• Dr. Frankenstein
• Creates monster in his lab
• Complex work of nature and science
• Concern that science is growing out of control
• Suggests maternal love is possibly key to
  happiness

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English Romanticism

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• Founder of English Romantic movement
• Witnessed revolutionary France
• Inspired by political idealism
• Bliss was it, in that dawn to be alive.
• 1799 lived in Lake District (his poetry made it
  famous)

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English Romanticism

• George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
• Led an unconventional life
• Mysterious and gloomy heroes in his books
• Romantic melodrama

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Lord Byron

• THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece!Where
  burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the
  arts of war and peace,---Where Delos rose and
  Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them
  yet,But all, except their sun, is set.

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English Romanticism

• George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
• Died in Greece during Greek war of independence

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English Romanticism

• John Keats (1795-1821)
• Eve of Saint Agnes
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode to Autumn
• Died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis

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The Horrors of WarEmotion in
Romantic Painting
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Goya

• His works
• Uses emotions to show the horrors of war
• Agonized victims
• Light of torches on victims while executions lie
  in the shadows

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Romantic Painting in France
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Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)

• Young French liberal
• Used violent lighting to enhance emotions
• Used painting to expose scandal

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Raft of the Medusa by Gericault (French
government ship, wrecked off the coast of Africa
in 1816)
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Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

• Greatest of all French Romantic artists
• Used color and combination to create emotion

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The Death of Sardanapalus (1826)

• Orgy of violence
• Assyrian king atop his own funeral pyre
• Has destroyed his possession and his wives rather
  than give them to the enemy
• Dreamlike quality
• (Aka Massacre No. 2)

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Massacre at Chios by Delacroix

• Aka Massacre 1
• Romantic political protest
• Turkish slaughter of 20,000 Greeks on Chios in
  1824
• Drew inspiration from Lord Byron
• To set fire to yourself, remember certain
  passages from Byron

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Women of Algiers by Delacroix (1834)
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British Romantic

• Malford William Turner
• (owned 6 cats)

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Steamer in a Snowstorm
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Romantic Music

• Music, like painting could release emotion

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827

• Bridged classical and romantic periods
• Son of an alcoholic court musician
• Before losing his hearing learned classical
  musical structures

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827

• Romanticist because he withdraws increasingly
  within himself..reveals only his subjective
  thoughts and pays heed to nothing but his own
  inspiration

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827

• Very dramatic composer
• Often knocked down candles during performance
• Music helped popularize the piano
• Enjoyed wealth and fame (unlike Mozart)

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827

• Age 32 realized deafness was incurable
• Contemplated suicide
• But continued to compose
• Moonlight Sonata scene from Immortal Beloved

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Fused romantic poetry and music
• Performed in only one public concert
• Died at a young age, syphilis

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Chopin

• Most famous composers of early 19th century
• Dreamy, brooding, melancholic, and fiery
• Performed in upper-class drawing rooms

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The middle class

• Loved classical music
• Attended by musically educated listeners
• Private concerts took place in middle class
  homes
• Piano playing became common
• Children received music lessons