Romanticism

• Born:January 22nd 1788
• Death:
• Childhood facts

Father abandoned him

Had club foot

Mother was Schizophrenic

Abusive Nurse

Became a lord at age 10

Romanticism

J.M.W. Turner

Romanticism

• Went to school at Brentford.
• Got the idea to be a painter.
• His dad would sell his paintings.
• Had very few friends.
• Worked as his studio assistant.
• AKA "Painter of Light"
• Frquent guuest of George O'Brien Wyndham.
• Father died in 1829
• Never married but had 2 daughters.
• Last words were "Sun is God".

• Joseph Mallord William Turner
• Born April 23rd 1775 in Convent Garden, London, UK.
• Died December 19th 1851 Cheyne Walk UK.
• English Romantic landscape painter, watercolorist, and printmaker.
• Foundation for Impressionism.
• In his day, he was considered a controversial figure.
• Education- Royal Academy
• Nationality- British

In our words: a period in europe where the people started thinking more about individualism

Definititon: a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century emphazing inspiration, subjectivity, and the privacy of the individual

Lord Byron's Work

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Beethoven and Turner

exemplify Romanticism

because they both became

individuals and put their time

and energy into the arts.

They both became individuals

through the arts(Painting and Music)

-German

-Composer/Pianist

-Partially deaf since birth, hearing ability got worse as he aged

-First symphoney is in 1800

-Best work was in the last 10 year of his life when we was mostly deaf.

• 1800- "Ebullition of Passion"
• "The Adieu", "Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England", and "The Dream"
• 1806- "Fugitibe Pieces"
• 1807- "Hours of Idleness"
• 1807- "To my son"
• 1809- "English Bards" & "Scotch Reviewers"
• Autobiography- "Life & Adventures"

Ideas: Romanticism was seen by Isaiah Berlin as disruption for over a long period of time in the classic Western traditions of rationality and the very idea of moral absolutes and the agreed values that they had come up with.

Lord Byron's Life

She Walks In Beauty

FUN FACTS

They were against the industrial revolution and Romanticism was a reaction against the Industrial Revoultion and its effects, especially the rigid logic seeminly behind science and technology. Romanticism was a movement away from logic, disciplie, restraint, rationality, and the ideas against science and technology.

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She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impaired the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling place...

Values:Romanticism seeks to find the Absolute, the Ideal, by transcending the actual (VCU)

Beliefs: the beliefs of romanticism are the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty. (UH)

• He had love affairs and two children with his cousin and half sister
• Bisexual
• Enjoyed Adventure, the sea, and had a passion for animals
• Born with club foot
• 5' 8.5''