Romantic+artists'+responses+1800-1850

Carolina He

__Prompt:__ Discuss some of the ways in which Romantic artists, musicians, and writers responded to political and social-economic conditions in the period from 1800-1850. Document your response with specific examples from discussions of at least two of the three disciplines: visual arts, music and literature.

__Thesis:__ Romantic artists, musicians, and writers responded to the events in the period from 1800-1850 by conveying their feelings and views through their work.

__CDs:__ - emotion emphasized - individualism - revival of medieval Gothic - very much influenced by revolutions spreading through Europe __Visual Art:__ - Caspar David Friedrich - //Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog//, a solitary figure confronting immensity of nature - Joesph Malford William Turner - //Rain, Steam, and Speed// and //Slaveship// - depict wild power of nature - landscapes - Eugene Delacroix - //Liberty Leading the People,// tribute to French revolutionary tradition //-// Watteau, //Pilgrimage to Cythera,// portrays the world of nobility, seemingly occupied by beautiful but empty and sad parties and other entertainment - Theodore Gericault //- The Raft of Medusa// - Romantic fascination with nature, the exotic and unique and the government's failure in responding to a shipwreck

__Music:__ - Beethoven- revolutionary mood in Europe b/c of events in France - he wanted to communicate his beliefs -- Third Symphony (//Eroica//) - tribute to Napoleon as a leader -- opera //Fidelio// - expressed his loved liberty and hated oppression, story about how a faithful wife rescues her husband who has been unjustly imprisoned for his political views -- used //Symphony No.9// to preach doctrine of universal brotherhood - Hector Berlioz

-- //Symphonie Fantastique// - drug-induced imagination of a witches' gathering __Literature:__ //- The Sorrows of the Young Werther// by Johann Geothe, suicide over unrequited love, combined neoclassical style with Romantic themes of intuition and emotion - Sir Walter Scott's //Ivanhoe// - details conflicts between Norman and Saxon knights in England (medieval history) - Thomas Carlyle - pioneered history as the story of great men, with famous study of French Revolution - Lord Byron - a narrative poet, supported Greek independence in writings //- Frankenstein// by Mary Shelley, warnings about pride of modern man and technology gone wrong - Edgar Allen Poe - poet demonstrating Romantic interest in the dark side of things, occult, supernatural

Bibliography: Culture and Values, Volume II, 5th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth Group, 2002. Freiler, Chris. AP Achiever, 10th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2008.