Romanticism Flashcards
Neoclassicism characteristics
-imitate the Greek and Roman art (Aristotle 3 units)
-Create rules for art
- Reason over emotions
-Objetive, critical and rational
-The fables were popular for the moral lessons
Romanticism characteristics
-Human as an individual, with weakness and emotions
-Death is present
-imagination and subjectivity
-Freedom, nostalgia, melancholy and passion
-Admired middle age artists
Faust by johann Wolfgang Goethe
-Faustus makes a deal with the Devil (Mephistopheles)
-man looking for happiness at any cost
Les miserables by Víctor Hugo
-Tragedies
-Jean Valjean is the protagonist
-Justice kindness, crime, good an evil
Rhymes, Gustavo Adolfo bequer
-Poetic work (65 poems)
-Love, women and feelings