Romantic+Period

Rafiq, Adham

Prompt: Discuss specific works and characteristics of writers, painters, and musicians in the period of Romanticism (1770-1840), which challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on rationality and reason.

General characteristics of Romanticism:
 * high mark of specializaton as achieved in the Renaissance
 * #|heavy assertions of nationalism
 * validated emotion as trusty resource to #|aesthetic experience
 * attempt to escape urban sprawls and industrialization led to a revival in medievalism
 * embraced exotic, unknown themes
 * the sexual nature of spontaneity
 * great love of nature

Writers' Characteristics & Contributions:
 * majority of writers found comfort in criticizing the past
 * respected the thought that a mystic, undiscovered nature existed
 * some based on human #|psychology and the belief in the supernatural
 * Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
 * large symbol of Romanticism in earlier roots, very intuitive and passionate through his writings
 * //Sorrows of the Young Werther// - boomed his #|career and known as symbol of Romantic literary movement
 * Mary Shelley
 * introduced darker side of emotion and Romanticism
 * //Frankenstein//
 * #|Edgar Allen Poe
 * Highly acclaimed poet
 * obsessed over writing horror short stories

Painters' Characteristics & Contributions:
 * rejected classicist principles
 * preferred movement, warm tone of colors
 * reflection of artist's inner colors
 * Caspar #|David Friedrich
 * was the most influential German Romantic painter
 * loved producing landscapes and hone attention with light to the couple
 * //Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon//
 * Eugene Delacroix
 * French Romantic Painter
 * known for expressive brush strokes
 * inspired and incorporated style of Rubens and the rest of the Venetian Renaissance artists
 * //Death of Sardanopoulos//
 * known to be extremely epic

Musicians' Characteristics & Contributions:
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * one of most famous composers of all time
 * attributed to the Romantic movement due to major emotion throughout compositions
 * Fifth & Ninth Symphonies marked breakpoints in music
 * Hector Berlioz
 * Symphonie Fantastique
 * less significant figure of Romantic music

External Link: http://apeurohistory10.blogspot.com/2011/03/romantics-frq.html