Realism,Naturalism,and Symbolian in Europe(1800-

1900), the 20th century:European Modernisms,

Decolonisation

By:Ankit
Realisms,Naturalisms and Symbolian in
Europe(1800-1900)

Slaves in during the political and social aspirations of

the middle class came to dominate the nineteenth
century in Europe.
REALISM
• Realism means the attitude or practice of
accepting a situation as it is and being
prepared to deal with it accordingly.

• The term 'realism' was not a commonly

accepted literary until the French critics
began to use it in the 1850s. Altough its
first literary was used in Germany at the
turn of the nineteenth century.
NATURALISMS
• Naturalism is a theory in art and
literature which states that people and
things should be shown in a realistic
way.(Paintings, Songs ETC.)

Example of an art in Europe, painted

in the 19th century.
SYMBOLISM
• Symbolism means the use of symbols in
order to represent something.
• As prose looked outward at the world
around it, poetry looked inward as its very
construction as language.
• Inspired by Baudelaire's The flowers of
Evil, Symbolism's manifesto appeared in
1886.
The 20th century: European
Modernisms[1900s]
• Modernism is a philosophical movement that,
along with cultural trends and changes, arose
from wide-scale and far-reaching
transformations in Western society during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the
factors that shaped modernism were the
development of modern industrial societies and
the rapid growth of cities, followed then by
reactions of horror to World War I. Modernism
also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment
thinking, and many modernists rejected religious
belief.
• European writers and thinkers looked
beyond models of scientific rationalism for
means of expressing knowledge of the
world and lived experience that could not
be apprehended by intellect alone.
Example of arts in Europe during the
19th and 20th century.

Portrait of Eduard Kosmack by

Egon Schiele
Eugène Delacroix's Liberty
Leading the People, 1830, a
Romantic work of art
DECOLONIZATION

A Demo to free India from the British.

What is Decolonization?

• Decolonization means giving political

independence to a country that was
previously a colony.For example, India
was freed from the British in 1947.
• The literary traditions of the diverse
countries that the West calls "the Middle
East" reflect the multiple histories and
cultural traditions of the region.
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