industrial progress the Romantics rise with a view to making a balance between dehumanized men and women. Romanticism has been described and defined in different ways. The word Romantic has been used traditionally in opposition to the word classicism. Classicism is considered and connected with the social‚ the formal‚ the intellectual and the static whereas Romanticism is connected and concerned with the individual‚ informal‚ the emotional and the dynamic. The Romantics believed in the absolute freedom
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1. Painters and their craft: Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds–their place in the history of English art (genre peculiarities‚ style‚ pictures) Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury‚ Suffolk‚ in 1727. His father was a cloth merchant. Thomas soon evinced a marked inclination for drawing and in 1740 his father John Gainsborough sent him to London to study art. He stayed in London for eight years‚ working under the rococo portrait-engraver Gravelot. He also became familiar with the Flamish
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Pietism branch of the Lutheran Church. Kant was a bright child‚ he was placed under the tutelage of a local pastor to complete his basic education‚ and later he attended the Collegium Fridiricianum‚ a Latin school where developed a great passion for classicism. In 1740‚ Kant was accepted at the University of Konigsberg‚ he initially planned to study theology but he found his vocation in physics and mathematics. Upon his
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Barry Switzer If I showed you pictures of the Parthenon and Pantheon‚ would you get them confused? Well‚ I sure did at first‚ but then realized a lot of people do because they look almost alike. Well I am going to tell you today that they are two completely different‚ yet monumental pieces of architecture. To start off I want to look at the Parthenon and then finish with the Pantheon. So let’s begin! The Parthenon is a temple that towers above the city of Athens‚ symbolizing the Athenians’
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The True Pre-Romantic Poets Poets can be considered Pre-Romantic base on subject matter‚ style‚ and ideas. The Age of Johnson was a time after Pope and Swift and before Romantic poets of the 1790’s. This period had three influential poets: Gray‚ Burns‚ and Blake. Gray‚ Burns‚ and Blake are all considered Pre-Romantic poets dude to their romantic matter‚ style‚ and ideas in their poems‚ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‚ To a Mouse‚ and The Chimney Sweeper. Gray’s Pre-Romanticism is clearly
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Music Comparison Task: Prokofiev‚ Mvt 3‚ Yellow River‚ Mvt 2 The Yellow River’s 2nd movement begins with the conjunct rise and fall of the cello melody in the upbeat to the first bar‚ the Classical Symphony’s 3rd movement melody begins after the 4 bar intro with a heavy ‘rustic’ ie. pastoral-like themed in its whimsicality. This melody in the upper strings descends sequentially and modulates to chord 6 in B minor after the first two bars of figure 1. The chord progression in bar 7 moves from
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The twentieth century was full of events and changes‚ which affected all aspects people’s life. Of course‚ these changes were connected with the art too. The twentieth century had become a time of bright creative inspiration; many aspects of culture were in heyday. In this essay the history of music in the twentieth century will be discussed by comparing two countries: Russia and England. Both countries experienced a time of great music development; however‚ this time was different for them in some
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but the intensity of its development was even greater because it was based on works of European humanists Petrarche‚ Dante‚ Pico della Mirandolla. Petrark expressed the hopes of his time; he was inspired by the ancient cul-re‚ it gave birth to new classicism. Representatives of R in England: Thomas More (a politician‚ later was executed): “Utopia” – 2
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Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822)‚ considered the greatest sculptor of his time in Europe‚ and because he was his work became a model for many sculptors. Canova was known for the way he was able to represent Romantic Classicism‚ something that at the time was valued. He was able to take daring ideas and turn them into images that were seductive in elegance and form. One of Canova’s sculptures stayed true to his neoclassical approach. His sculpture titled Psyche revived
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Antonio Canova‚ a successful Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice‚ was known for his enchanting sculptures that I consider to be the essence of Neoclassicism. The neoclassical style influenced almost all European masterpieces including architecture‚ paintings and sculptures‚ in the eighteenth century‚ also known as the Age of Enlightenment. It constitutes as the heart of classic antiquity that was inspired by the classical period. This approach to art continues to impact the architecture
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