Art comments on life…

it always does… • What does it say about life during the Industrial Revolution?

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Romanticism

Romanticism • Definition: An early 19th - century movement in art & thought, which focused on emotion & nature rather than reason & society

Romanticism • Definition: An early 19th • William Blake century movement in art & • William Wordsworth thought, which focused on • George Gordon (Lord emotion & nature rather Byron) than reason & society • John Keats • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Victor Hugo • Robert Schuman

The tyger Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could Frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or sloes Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire? And What shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of they heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? And what dread feet? What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars their down their spears, And water’d heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry? -- William Blake

It is a beauteous evening It is a beauteous evening, calm and free; The hold time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the sea; Listen! The mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder – everlastingly. Dear Child! Dear Girl! That walkest with me here If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year; And worshipp’st at the Temple’s inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not -- William Wordsworth

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Realism • Definition: A 19th century movement in which writers & painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be.

• Charles Dickens • Mark Twain

Charles Dickens • Oliver Twist • Tale of Two Cities • Great Expectations

Mark Twain • Tom Sawyer • Huckleberry Finn

Charles Dickens on the Working Class The squalor of industrial Britain provided Charles Dickens with material for his realistic novels. Oliver Twist,Dickens’s second work, was published in serial form beginning in February 1837. The hero of the novel, an orphan named Oliver, is apprenticed to an undertaker at a very young age. In the excerpt below, Oliver and the undertaker will visit a poor neighborhood on business.. They walked on for some time, through the most crowed and densely inhabited part of the town; and then, striking down a narrow street more dirty and miserable than any they had yet passed through, paused to look for the house which was the object of their search. The houses on either side were high and large, but very old, and tenanted by people of the poorest class, as their neglected appearance would have sufficiently denoted without the concurrent testimony afforded by the squalid looks of the few men and women who, with folded arms and bodies half doubled, occasionally skulked along. A great many of the tenements had shopfronts; but they were fast closed and mouldering away, only the upper rooms being inhabited. Some houses which had become insecure from age and decay, were prevented from falling into the street by huge beams of wood reared against the walls and firmly planed in the road; but even these crazy dens seemed to have been selected as the nightly haunts of some houseless wretches, for many of the rough boards which supplied the place of door and window were wrenched from their positions, to afford an aperture wide enough for the passage of a human body. The kennel was there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine. There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, bidding Oliver keep close to him and be afraid, the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs. Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles. It was opened by a young girl of thirteen or fourteen. The undertaker at once saw enough of what the room contained to know it was the apartment to which he had been directed. He stepped in; Oliver followed him. There was no fire in the room; but a man was crouching mechanically over the empty stove. An old woman, too, Had drawn a low stool to the cold hearth, and was sitting beside him. There were some ragged children in another corner; and in a small recess, opposite the door, there lay upon the ground, something covered with an old blanket. “Ah!” said the old man, bursting into tears, and sinking oh his hands and knees; “Kneel down, kneel down kneel round her, every one of you, and mark my words! I say she was starved to death. I never knew how bad she was, till the fever came upon her; and then her bones were starting though the skin. There was neither fire nor candle; she died in the dark-in the dark! She couldn’t even see her children’s faces, though we heard her gasping out their names. I begged for her in the streets: and they sent me to prison. When I came back, she was dying; and all the blood in my head has dried up, for they starved her to death. I swear it! They starved her!”

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Impressionism • Definition: A movement in 19thcentury painting in which artists reacted against realism by seeking to convey their impressions of subjects or moments in time. Mary Cassatt

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Post-Impressionism • Definition: A movement in 19thcentury painting in which artists reacted against the light of impressionism to show a darker side.

• “The Scream”

So what does art say about the Industrial Revolution?