Romantic Art Literature Music: French Revolution
Originating as a rebellion against classicism, during the French Revolution, romanticism is the emphasis on individual imagination and expression, then practiced as a respondent to political and social-economic conditions. By the early to mid 1800's, people, namely by means or art, literature, and, music had immersed themselves with the notion (that emotional fulfillment would lead to self-development). Emerging as an artistic, literary, and musical movement, artists, writers, and musicians responded to political and social-economic conditions by promoting individual freedom
Poets, namely Coleridge and Wordsworth, abandoned the classics, and advanced on towards simply, emotional responses; rather than analyzing nature, they appreciated it. Romantic artists sought to disclose emotions by depicting humans in society, as they are confronted (by nature). Theodore Gericault's Portrait of an Officer of the Chasseurs Coming a Charge and The Raft of Medusa made significant impacts to the public; one relaying the feelings of the Napoleonic era, and the latter bringing actual realization of the world around them. Musicians such as Beethoven incorporated his brooding past, merged with classical rules of structure and harmony, into his music, revealing only subjective thoughts. Music became the escape for the middle class to make money in private life as this "romantic" (though not dissimilar to the "sentimental") style came into vogue, although opera still maintained the most popular. Other romantics, such as Schiller and Goethe, brought out a different sense of romanticism: heroics. Likewise, romantic writers attempted to convey feelings. and conveying human emotions and societies helplessness, through means of incorporating romanticism in their works. Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People displayed a great sense of heroism and patriotism within France. Unlike the literature that completely broke from traditional writings, romantic music rediscovered the classics and bridged, what the 19th century referred to as, romantic and sentimental music. Showing Lady Liberty carrying the tri-color emblem, the painting depicted France's recent history of that century, attracting people's hearts, and clearly reflecting the people's ability to make changes in their lives (in government). Schiller's definition of freedom, "the unleashing of sense and passion of the soul," brought about his essay "The Aesthetic Education of Mankind," in which he claimed, without emotion and those unleashing freedom could not be gained, and political issues could not be subdued. Goethe's Faust further induced emotional passions, which were not felt among man during the Enlightenment.
Common topics in this essay:
French Revolution,
Lady Liberty,
Musicians Beethoven,
Education Mankind,
Raft Medusa,
Coleridge Wordsworth,
Enlightenment Schiller's,
Leading People,
Schiller Goethe,
Goethe's Faust,
social-economic conditions,
political social-economic conditions,
political social-economic,
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