Neoclassical, Romantic and

Realist Art, Literature and

Music

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons JacquesLouis David

Moonrise over the Sea Caspar David

Friedrich

The Gleaners JeanFrancois Millet

Joseph M.W. Turners Childe Harolds

Pilgrimage 1832

The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis

David, 1787

The March of the Weavers by Kathe

Kollwitz, 1897

The Apotheosis of Homer by Jean-Auguste-Dominique

1827

Liberty Leading the People by Eugene

Delacroix 1830

Women Ironing by Edgar Degas

circa 1884 - 1886

Let Power or Knowledge, Gold or Glory

please,
Or (oft more strong than all) the love of
ease;
Through life it is followed, even at lifes
expense;
The merchants toil, the sages
indolence,
The monks humility, the heros pride,
All, all alike, find Reason on their side.

Slide 2.3 G
Neoclassical
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
1733

Up! Up! My Friend, and quit your

books;
Or surely youll grow double:
Up! Up! My Friend, and clear your
looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
Books! tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
Theres more of wisdom in it.

And hark! How blithe the throstle

sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by
health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.

Enough of Science and of Art;

Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

Slide 2.3 H
Romantic
The Tables Turned by William
Wordsworth
1798

The four colliers had spread

themselves out, one above the other,
to cover the whole coal-face. Each
one occupied about four metres of
the seam, and there were hooked
planks between them to catch the
coal as it fell. The seam was so thin,
hardly more than fifty centimeters
through at this point, that they were
flattened between roof and wall,
dragging themselves along by their
knees and elbows, unable to turn

In order to get at the coal, they had to

lie on one
side with twisted neck, arms above
their heads,
and wield their short-handled picks
slantways.
Zacharie was at the bottom, with
Levaque and
Chaval above him and Maheu at the
top. Each
cut into the bed of shale with his pick,
then

The coal was soft, and in its fall the

block broke up and rolled in pieces all
over the mens stomachs and thighs.
When these pieces, stopped by the
planks, had collected beneath them,
the men disappeared, immured in
the narrow cleft.

Slide 2.3 I
Realist
Germinal by Emile Zola
1885

Recording A
Romantic
Symphonic Fantastique, Fifth
Movement by Hector Berlioz
1830

Recording B

Classical
Emperor, Quartet in C, Opus 76, no. 3
Franz Joseph Haydn
1797

Recording C
Realist/Verismo
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro
Mascagni
1888