Artistic and Philosophical Movement Late 18th Century Mid 19th Century European, to lesser extent American Response

e to Industrialization Related to the rise of Nationalism

Liberty Leading the People, 1830 By Eugene Delacroix

French Revolution 1789 Series of revolutions in Europe 1820-1848 Industrial Revolution England France Germany Urbanization

Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, 1834, Muse d'Art Ancien, Brussels a romantic vision by a Belgian painter.

Re-discovery of Folk Culture Nostalgia for PreIndustrial Past Interest in Exotic Locales Escape into Imaginative Worlds Passionate Belief in Liberty and Equality
Theodore Chassriau, Othello and Desdemona in Venice, 1850

Subject matter inspires emotional responses Use of contemporary events to create an effect of Immediacy Distant Medieval past and images of natural wonder called upon to generate feelings of awe and longing

William Blake, c. 1824-27, The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides, Tate

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) Spanish painter, print maker The nightmarish and grotesque The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters(1796-98)

Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819

Courtyard with Lunatics, 1794.

William Wordsworth (17701850) Founder of English Romantic movement Witnessed revolutionary France Inspired by political idealism Bliss was it, in that dawn to be alive
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798), The Excursion (1814),The Prelude (1850)

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure:-But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Natures holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?