Expression and Creativity Explore New Horizons

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Brief Response

• Why are religious fundamentalists against science in today’s world?

• Fundamentalists (especially some Christian churches and Muslim sects) feel that the Bible answers all the questions about existence.– Scientific knowledge contradicts the teachings of the Bible.– Fundamentalists fear their children and others will not choose

the teaching of the faith.

Why Art and Expression?

– First, art had developed from religious and wealthy expression in the Renaissance to more human forms and ideas.

– By the Industrial Revolution, and because of it…..– One group of artists tried to capture the passion and drama of

emotion, exaggerating it for fantastic effect.– A later group of artists sought to show the moody, stark realism

of industrial life and change.– other artists began exploring deep imagery and feelings verging

on the subconscious and momentary. – Popular art was an effort to escape the boredom of the industrial

work day and lifestyle.

William Wordsworth, William Blake: grey

• Led the English literary and art movement called romanticism during the early industrial revolution (1750 to 1850).

Romanticism:

• artistic movement focusing on passionate emotions—Written simply and directly, with intense feeling and expression

• . Romantics sought to escape or ignore the boring and work-oriented industrial society around them.

Lord Byron:

• Passionate English poet, – Romantic legend when he died in Greece of a fever,

while helping them fight for independence. – He is reputed to have swum the four-mile, turbulent

Hellespont there to do the same feat done by ancient mythological Greek hero, Lysander.

• Close friend of the Shelleys.

Victor Hugo:

• French writer of the romantic and historic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Romanticism was expressed in music:

• Ludwig van Beethoven: • German music composer who was the first to

use the new musical instruments available and many of them to create gigantic sounds.

• He combined classical techniques with romantic sounds to make audiences “see and feel” nature and emotion.

• samples

Realism:

• artists in this movement chose to show life as it was. • These artists did not believe in romanticism. • It often focused on the “down-side” (sad, depressed) of

life, because it is more dramatic, • many wanted to end the social evils going on at the time.

– Uncontrolled capitalism; EC: things like (4)• Unsafe workplaces and slums• Pollution• Poverty • Disease

• samples

Charles Dickens:

• British author. – His novels, like Oliver Twist, showed the poverty of

Britain to readers that shocked them.

• Considered a “social critic”• Other social issues he criticized were

– child abuse– urban crime.

• He used humor to entertain, but to also point out hypocrisy of the laissez-faire capitalists.

Painting

• Gustave Courbet: grey

• French painter. – Portrayed many aspects of French life.

• “The Stone Breakers”

• Thomas Eakins, US: – Like many realists, subjects became more

shocking….. “The Gross Clinic”– samples

Louis Daguerre:

• French developer of photography.

• Early photos did not allow movement, so were not very dramatic.

• As cameras got faster, subjects could pose in any desired fashion.

Impressionism:

• Artists in this genre attempt to capture the feelings of a particular moment, seeing a person or event, in their art.

• Looks realistic. • Impressionists responded to the

development of photography

Claude Monet:

• highly renown impressionist, France. Used visible brush strokes to emphasize light and color, “Impression Sunrise”

• The style was popular because it offered another way to see familiar subjects through art.

• samples

Vincent van Gogh: • Dutch; post-impressionist

• used sharp brushes and bright colors, creating “dreamlike” imagery.

• He did not worry about subjects looking real or even important.

• His colors often are intense and full of moodiness/passion.

• His progressive depression is reflected in his later works.

• samples

Art genres of the late Industrial Revolution

• Fauvism

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Biography, 218

• Question

• His music aroused strong emotions

Standards Check, 218

• Question:

• They rebelled against the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason and progress

• They focused on emotion and nature

Standards Check, 219

• Question:

• Realism represented the realities of industrialization

• It rejected the romantic emphasis on imagination and sentiment

Standards Check, 220

• Question:

• The realism of photography made some artists turn away from realistic painting

Image, 220

• Question:

• Intense colors

• Bold brush strokes

• Effects of light

Thinking Critically, 221

• #1. • Used unmixed primary colors

• Visible brush strokes

• Idealized depictions of objects

• Subjects were sometimes off-center

• Figures were sometimes on the periphery of the canvas

Thinking Critically, 221, #2

Advantages

• Immediate connection between artist and subject

• Painters did not need to rely on sketches or memory to make the final work

• Painters could capture one scene at different times and in different lights

Disadvantages

• At mercy of the weather• Had to work more rapidly

than in a studio

Brief Response

• How did works of literature and art like Charles Dicken’s novels make people aware of social issues?

Summary Write: Inventors, Innovations, Ideas (12 pts)

• 2 VLA standard paragraphs (+ a brief topic paragraph)– Select an invention, inventor, or a scientific idea and

describe how that advance helped the industrial age.– Describe why you believe that advance is such a key

development toward our modern post-industrial age.

• Cite information from the text.• Due by end of the period.