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George Stubbs (Painter)
Whistlejacket (The National Gallery) -
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Romanticism
Romanticism uses different techniques: oil, watercolors, engravings and lithographs. Romanticism in literature began to emphasize the emotion, the feeling and the importance of the most intimate feelings in his works. Some of the characteristics of the music in the romanticism were the numerical growth of the orchestral group and the triumph of piano for soloist. -
William Blake (Writer)
The Tyger -
Mary Shelley (Writer)
Frankenstein -
Caspar David Friedrich (Painter)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog -
Stendhal (Writer)
The Red and the Black -
Franz Liszt (Musician)
What one hears on the mountain -
Frédéric Chopin (Musician)
Étude Op. 10, No. 3 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner (Painter)
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up (The National Gallery) -
Giuseppe Verdi (Musician)
Oberto (opera) -
Edgar Allan Poe (Writer)
The Raven -
Period: to
Realism
Realism acts against Romanticism. It tries to distance itself from the egocentrism and the idealism that Romanticism had reflected in his works. Realism portrays the everyday in an objective way. Realism in literature seeks to show in the works a faithful reproduction very close to reality. It opposes romanticism, reflects individual and social reality. -
Gustave Flaubert (Writer)
Madame Bovary -
Georges Bizet (Musician)
The Pearl Fishers -
Honoré Daumier (Painter)
The Laundress (Musée d'Orsay) -
León Tolstói (Writer)
War and Peace -
Richard Wagner (Musician)
The Valkyrie -
Gustave Courbet (Painter)
Apples and a Pomegrante (The National Gallery) -
Period: to
Impressionism
The painters portrayed objects according to the impression that the light produces in sight and not according to the supposed objective reality. Features in music:
- More freedom in the rhythm, there was the possibility to change the duration of the notes.
- Experimentation at the timbral level. There were new sounds and effects. Impressionism in literature emerged as a reaction against realism and set out to register sensations primarily, while restoring a new imaginative era. -
Alphonse Legros (Painter)
Le Repas des Pauvres (Tate Britain) -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Painter)
The Umbrellas (The National Gallery) -
Antón Chéjov (Writer)
Surgery -
Vincent Van Gogh (Painter)
Van Gogh's Chair (The National Gallery) -
Claude Debussy (Musician)
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun -
Isaac Albéniz (Musician)
Henry Clifford -
Richard Strauss (Musician)
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks -
Marcel Proust (Writer)
Pleasures and Days -
Octave Murbeau (Writer)
The Torture Garden -
Maurice Ravel (Musician)
Fountains -
Claude Monet (Painter)
Water Lilies (The National Gallery)
