9.4 Flashcards
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Who was William Wordsworth?
A poet, part of the romantic movement.
Who was William Blake?
A poet and writer who contributed to the romantic movement.
What was romanticism?
A 19th-century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason.
Who was Lord Byron?
A British poet who wrote about moody, isolated, and romantic heroes.
Who was Victor Hugo?
A French novelist who recreated his country’s past in novels such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
A romantic German composer whose music combined classical forms with a stirring range of sound.
What is realism?
An attempt to represent the world as it was, without the sentiment associated with romanticism.
Who was Charles Dickens?
An English novelist who portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and factory workers in his books.
Who was Gustave Courbet?
A French realist painter who depicted what he saw in his works.
Who was Louis Daguerre?
A French inventor who improved on earlier technologies to produce successful photographs by the 1840s.
What is impressionism?
A style of art in which painters attempted to capture the first fleeting impression made by a scene or object.
Who was Claude Monet?
An impressionist artist who applied colors without combining them, relying on the human eye to blend them.
Who was Vincent van Gogh?
A post-impressionist painter who experimented with sharp lines and bright colors.
What artistic movement emerged in reaction to the Industrial Revolution?
Romanticism, which emphasized imagination, freedom, and emotion.
What did romanticism glorify?
Nature and communicated intense feelings.
What was romanticism a reaction to?
Neoclassicism, which focused on reason and restraint.
What type of hero did romantic writers create?
Mysterious, isolated, larger-than-life characters.
Give two examples of romantic heroes besides Lord Byron’s.
Goethe’s Faust and Charlotte Brontë’s Rochester in Jane Eyre.
How did Victor Hugo find inspiration for his works?
By writing about France’s past, as in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In architecture, what style did romantics revive?
The medieval Gothic style, as seen in the British Parliament buildings.
How did romantic composers and artists stir deep emotions?
• Beethoven used all the instruments in the orchestra to produce a wide range of sound.
• J. M. W. Turner used bold color to show the power of nature.
What artistic movement emerged after romanticism?
Realism.
What did realists focus on?
Depicting the harsh side of existence.
How did Charles Dickens contribute to realism?
He portrayed the lives of slum dwellers and orphans in his novels.
