Revolutions in the Arts

The Romantic Movement

• By the end of the 1700s
artists turned from ideals
of the enlightenment to a
new movement called
Romanticism.
• Romanticism reflected
deep interest in nature,
thoughts, and feelings.
• Artists turned from reason
to emotion.
Ideas of Romanticism

•Emphasized inner
feelings, emotions, and
imagination.
•Focused on mysterious,
exotic, or grotesque.
•Beauties of untamed
nature.
•Glorified heroes and
action heroes.
•Valued common people.
•Promoted radical change
and democracy.
 She Walks in Beauty

Literature By Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1788–1824

Lord Byron (George Gordon) She walks in
beauty, like the night
• Romantics    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
considered poetry    Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
the highest form of    Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

expression. One shade the more, one ray the less,

   Had half impaired the nameless grace
• Poems expressed Which waves in every raven tress,
   Or softly lightens o’er her face;
love of nature, Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
romance, and    How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

rebellious heroes. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,

   So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
   But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
   A heart whose love is innocent!
 Gothic Beauty
• Gothic horror stories became hugely popular
such as Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley.
 Composers
• Composers celebrated heroism and national
pride.
• Music became part of the middle class life
which made musicians popular heroes such as
Franz Liszt, and Beethoven.
• Other main composers of the time were
Frederic Chopin, Verdi, and Richard Wagner.