It involved politics of time, people’s fears, hopes, and aspirations. Romantics often mixed elements of nationalism. Romanticism, though the name of the period has romantic in the word. They were not just about love, but more about the intensity of feeling, how their mood was, and how the world was created and why it is the way that it is. Many art historians consider the Impressionist movement to be the successor to romanticism.
The Romantic writers and artist used imagination but in the end it was all reality, where everyone really understood it. Unlike the philosophes, many Romantics liked the art, literature,and architecture of medieval times. They were also interested in the folk music and fairy tales. The dreams, hallucinations, sleepwalking, and other phenomena that suggested the existence of a world beyond the empirical observation, sensory data, and discursive reasoning was what interested the Romantics. Two writers who were closely related to the Enlightenment provided the immediate intellectual foundations for Romanticism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant.
Poe’s famous poem, “The Raven,” is about a man’s descent into madness. Whereas, Hawthorne had a family and seemed to enjoy his life, he believed that man had the ability to overcome the very worst of itself. Hawthorne’s, “The Scarlet Letter,” is about one woman over-coming and sticking it to the system. Edgar Allen Poe is seen more as an idealist due to his psychological issues relating to his writings. The realist of the two would be Nathaniel Hawthorne, his intentions for writing was to eliminate degradation and to retain morality.
Through a comparison of how the authors depict this theme the responder gains an insight into the different human experiences of each time and the composers. In both texts the two protagonists search for the platonic form of the universal desire of love; however love is undoubtable transformed by their respective contexts which are why the texts offer an insight into two different human experiences. The persona in the sonnet sequence figuratively speaking wishes to be loved ‘for loves sake only’. Similarly Jay Gatsby metaphorically seeks a love that ‘went beyond her artificial world’. Although the two protagonists both idealised and sought a platonic love, because of the historical context of 1850’s England and 1920’s America experienced by the composers, it was only possible for the persona in the sonnets to achieve this while Gatsby couldn’t realise his ideal; this is reflective of the composers themselves.
515). Another famous Netherlandish painter. “Garden of Earthly Delights” has been considered as the most controversial and enigmatic work (Kleiner). Unlike Jan van Eyck, Masaccio and Leonardo, Bosch, probably, was not purely oriented at pro-religious thematic. Jan van Eyck, for example, depicted humble couples, while Bosch portrayed a world of fantasy, where intrigue was the key element.
It was thinking according to these very ideas that Thomas Cole’s talents as a painter came forth, with paintings that in Europe would be called “picturesque”. With the Romantic ideals such as strong emotion stressed a source of aesthetic experience, and an emphasis on emotions such as awe in confronting sublimity in untamed nature, Thomas Cole brings the qualities of Europe’s Romantic Movement into America’s artistic culture (“Romanticism”). Thomas Cole had not only become an icon of American artistic culture, but had become a conveyer of European artistic culture as well. With his beautiful pieces of art acting as a medium between cultures, and establishing himself as the icon for American landscape painting, Thomas Cole was and is considered the founder of the “Hudson River School”. The term is referring to the foremost representatives of nineteenth century American landscape painting (Avery and Roque).
The context of romanticism can be equated to a reaction against the enlightenment age. It is believed that there is a big relationship between Romanticism and the French revolution that started in 1789. It can be said that most romantics were basically progressive in their opinions although others had conservative views because nationalism in many countries was associated with Romanticism (Noon, 2003). Realism Realism in literature and visual arts tries to depict subjects as they exist in the third person reality. The presentation of objective reality is in accord with empirical, secular rules and does not depend on interpretations.
EXPRESSIONISM In the artistic style known as expressionism, the artist doesn’t try to reproduce objective reality. Instead, the aim is to depict the subjective emotions that a person feels in response to objects and events. The style is characterized by the use of distortion, exaggeration, and fantasy to create vivid or jarring effects. As a movement, the term 'Expressionism' usually denotes the late-19th century, early-20th century schools of emotive or interpretive art, which emerged mainly in Germany and Paris as a reaction to the more passive style of Impressionism. In the sense that it was a reaction to Impressionism, we may describe expressionism as an example of "post-Impressionism".
The Post Impressionism Era artists used techniques derived from the Impressionism Era, but also showed passion in their art. Vibrant and vivid colors were used by these artists to express their feelings. Symbolism was extremely critical to these artists as they wanted to express their emotions through their work, often utilizing real life subjects. (Post Impressionism, 2015). A3: Relationship between Impression and Post-Impressionism Eras Both Eras occurred in the 19th century in the country of France and began as a result of a group of people that wanted to provide a different approach to art.
The Role of Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Around the time of the later 1800’s, in the Victorian Era during which Oscar Wilde was at the peak of his career, the aestheticism movement was a popular social attitude formed in opposition to traditional Victorian values. With the influence of his poetry and plays, Oscar Wilde was a major proponent of this movement, and its philosophies are a dominant theme in his novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. In the novel, the characters’ revelations about the soul, their pursuit of pleasure, and their treatment of art all reflect the ideas supported by the aesthetes’ philosophy on life. When it was first published in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was purported to be immoral, so Wilde revised his novel and had it published again a year later with the preface that clearly outlines the aesthetic approach he intended. In this preface he states that “There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book.