Religious conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants had a great effect on art. ... Rococo, a playful and sensual style was developed by using pastel colors, delicately curving forms and dainty figures. ... Below is an example of Baroque art at its best in my opinion. ... Characteristics or Romanticism include deep intense colors, intensity of vision, less naturalistic, idealize nature, fluid brushwork, and not idealized forms. Below is an example of what Romantic art encompassed. ...

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Write about how romantic art differed from Neo-classical art. For as long as there has been art, art has been great way to define the times. Many styles of art have existed and coexisted through the years. ... During the Eighteenth Century, one of the major art forms of the time was known as Neo-Classical art. ... Art became much more colorful and heartfelt. ...

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There are three forms of art, or "three forms of the beautiful", (Hegel, 68) that is necessary to form the idea of art itself, as Hegel believes. The development of art from one form to the other is what Hegel defines as the history of art. ... "Classical" art is the form of art that is characterized as the works of ideal beauty. ... In "Symbolic" art the content is formed abstractly, it is not able to demonstrate itself sufficiently enough in a sensuous, visible form, in contrast, "Classical" art is conceived in the manner that is able to find utter per...

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Women in Ancient Art Women are the foundations of life. ... Towards the end of the Romantic period, a group of seven artists sometimes called the "Last Romantics" began a style of art of romantic art that followed Raphael, who was considered to have perfected art in itself. ... In the 18th century, art took a new turn. ... Modern art requires its audience to observe carefully in order to get some facts about the artist, his intentions, and his environment, before forming judgments about the work. ... The images of women in art have changed from art movement to art movement, reflecting socia...

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Romanticism Realism and Modern Art Romanticism was more then just an art form it was a way of life, a way of thinking, and above all a way of seeing everyday life. The Romantic era began in art around 1805. Romantic ways of art were more then just painting, sculpting, writing and thinking. ... He kept true to form. ... This sculpture was made with deep emotions like was required for Romantic era art. ...

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Two examples of art from this period are Jasper Cropsey's The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley from 1865 (Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, inv. ... The mountains to the left are shown as dark forms compared to the mountains on the right where topographical differences can be seen. ...

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Schumann and Hoffmann were linked in many aspects of life including their shared passion for both literature and music, and in their eccentric and slight bipolar personalities - The similarities in their Romantic views as well as the way they expressed themselves through art form was uncanny. ... The structural unity lies in the interplay between the tonalities of G major and/B flat major (recurring key signatures that are present in one form or another in all of the movements). ... They both deviated from art in the Classical period where art was to be elegant, natural, simple, and always fol...

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It seems as though Baudelaire is bragging about how good of a writer in saying that he is God of the vision, and his work is a perfect art. ... This poem is kind of a reflection on how Keats feels about art, and in this poem, the art on a Grecian Urn. It also appears to be a journey into the world of art, aspired by an Urn, which is what the poem is based upon. ... He is speaking of the unheard melodies that are implicated on the Urn's art, and it seems like he views art as something that is eternal. ... As we can now see, these great works of the Romanticism period consistently show a fo...

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In its various forms it has maintained it value and popularity throughout literary history. ... In the poem, Keats praises the essential qualities of art and he sees them as vehicles for truth and beauty. He believes art is expressive, enduring and constant. Art has the ability to provoke thought and invoke the senses of ones mind and in his poem, Keats has attempted to rouse the feelings of the responder. ... The "quest" genre has many enduring qualities which, in their varying forms, have, and will in future, maintained their value and popularity throughout literary history. ...

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When he got older, Goya traveled to Italy to study art and observe art styles of the Italian masters. ... Also, during this period Goya began to synthesize neoclassical and rococo art into his own. ... Gericault discovered at a very young age that he was not an advocate for the popular neo-classical school of art. ... After returning to Paris, Gericault presented his Raft of the Medusa at the Salon of 1819 where critics began to see the development of romanticism and how Gericault was revolutionary in his depiction of human emotion and form. ... The Raft of the Medusa was truly the quintessent...

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Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, written in 1941. ... Reynolds points out that a subversive literature existed prior to the work of the major authors of the American Renaissance, in the form of sensational crime novels, erotic writings, humor writing, etc. ... Generally, romanticism marks a reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from the neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of the preceding period. ... This marked a growing liberality in religious thought and practice, and this period was significant in terms...

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"The Oxbow" is representing a new opportunity yet there is a large storm from the left, which some art critics view as the storm of civilization arriving. ... Chiaroscuro was another common characteristic that was used to draw balance to all forms in the painting creating a more dramatic appeal through light and shadow. ... Poussin's was noted as the best French Baroque painter and his influence on art was drastic for the next two centuries leading to the teachings of Poussin. ... Though these two works of art obviously differ in stylized period techniques and themes, they 'd agree ...

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Emotional subjectivity was a basic quality in every type of art during this time. ... Their music had many of the same forms as the Classical Period. ... It was a very distinct period filled with forms from the Classical Period, only with much more expression and emotion. ... The passion in art, the variety of bold colors, the freedom of expression, and how one feels through the sound of a piano or violin, it was all being shown. ...

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There was a decline of the 'grand' style and of most forms of contrived architectural prose written for what may be called public or didactic purposes. Though some Romantic poets-Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron-wrote excellent prose in their critical writings, letters and journals, and some of the novelists like Scott and Jane Austen were masters of prose-style, those who wrote prose for its own sake in the form of the essays and attained excellence in the art of prose-writing were Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey. ... Though at times he is misled by his prejudices, yet taking his c...

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His Spirit of the Laws sought to explain how different groups of people end up with different and varying forms of government. ... He wrote on philosophy, science, music, and art, and wrote novels, essays, and dramatic pieces Rousseau's most important work is The Social Contract that describes the relationship of man with society. ... He joins together with his fellow men to form the collective human presence known as society. ... There is the first galaxy of artists- poets, painters, musicians, and theorists of art and society an outpouring of genius hard to match in any period for va...

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In creating these layers in both content and form, both Delacroix and Baudelaire construct works of art which become worlds unto themselves, with their own truths and limits, worlds where oppositions are blurred and recreated on the artist's own terms. ... For these artists the Orient is both a European dream and a historical reality, as evidenced by the form and content of their works. ... Yet Delacroix also subtly references the exterior in both content and form. ... This viewer/speaker/artist is both intimate with and distant from the woman he is viewing, forming an uneasy relation...

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Romantic literature departed from the traditional materials, form and style of preceding Neo-Classic literature, embracing innovation in these areas. ... Blake and Wordsworth, were (roughly) contemporaries in this time, and rejected the rules and rigid style of the poets before them, adopting instead a new style without such restrictions of subject, style or form. ... By turning the wild, frightening beast into a work of art, the poet tames him. ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. And although he did not seem to be destined to become a composer, music soon became very important to him, displaying multiple talents in performance and composition. ROBERT SCHUMANN ~~* HIS LIFE *~~ In Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 Robert Alexander Schumann was to bookseller father, Friedrich August Schumann, and mother, Johanna (Christiane Schnabel). By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; ...

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As one of the driving forces of the young Romantic movement, Robert Schumann influenced the development of a new style. And although he did not seem to be destined to become a composer, music soon became very important to him, displaying multiple talents in performance and composition. ROBERT SCHUMANN ~~* HIS LIFE *~~ In Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 Robert Alexander Schumann was to bookseller father, Friedrich August Schumann, and mother, Johanna (Christiane Schnabel). By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; ...

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As Madeline's mysterious illness approaches physical paralysis, Roderick's mental agitation takes the form of a "morbid acuteness of the senses" thus separating his body from the physical world making all normal sensations painful and leaving him with only faint emotion. (5) The narrator, only tied with the Usher family by a boyhood companionship with Roderick, tries to comfort and eventually attempt to save Roderick from his illness of which his exterior self has been lost within the interior world of the imagination. ... As Roderick shares his fantasy world with the narrator; h...

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The Romantic Movement marked the practice and reaction in literature, art, religion and politics. ... Therefore Shelley subtitles her novel, The Modern Prometheus as Prometheus stole from the Gods the fire of life to seek for human betterment and to create the human form. ...

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The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is a complex work of literature. It combines involved characters with deep symbolism to tell the story of a troubled woman and what drives her to suicide. Because of its complexity, it is difficult to classify The Awakening into a literary category. On the surface, it could be considered a good example of Realism. Edna Pontellier, a married woman, finds herself infatuated with another man. ...

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