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| How did Industrialization and Imperialism transform Western society in the beginning of the 19th century? |
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Industrialization concentrated people, leading to more urban areas.
Imperialism established an "expanionist state", designed to control other countries and eventually the world. |
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| What is Nationalism, Realism, and Idealism? |
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Nationalism: the belief that one's nation is superior to all others and must be preserved above all other.
Realism: Neoclassical thought.
Idealism: ????? |
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| How did Tourism in England generate a new movement, style and attitude in the arts known as Romanticism? |
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| How did the Romantic approach to Nature differ from the Neo-Classical approach to Nature? |
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Romantics would believe becoming close to nature is powerful and holds the truth to life.
Neo-Classical approach would see nature as uncontrollable and cannot logically be evaluated. |
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| Why did the Romantic find the night more interesting than the day? |
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| Senses were hightened and therefore you became more in tune with nature itself. |
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| How does the typical Romantic view the human mind? |
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| The human mind is a "feeling thing" that is connected to the body, not an abstract "thinking thing" disconnected from the body. |
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| Who is William Wordsworth and how does Wordsworth unerstand humankind's relationship to Nature? |
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| What new artistic technique did Joseph William Turner introduce in his painting The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach? |
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"Transparency Effect"
Water spraying from falls creating a rainbow. |
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| What is the Sublime in Nature and how did Turner affectively express this natural phenomenon in his art work? |
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Sublime: leaves on with a sense of smallness, awe, fear, and terror.
Depicts nature as something vast, and powerful, that the viewer cannot fully comprehend its meaning. Leaves viewer in anxiety. |
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| How does Capser David Friedrich's painting Wanderer Above the Mists leave the viewer with a sense of meaninglessness? |
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| Aims to stimulate the human imagination to find a way to overcome our feeling of smallness when confronted with the overwhelming forces of nature. |
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| Which American landscape artist painted Twilight in the Wilderness? |
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| How did the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Freidrich Schelling, and Henry David Thoreau influence Romantic Literature? |
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| Individualism and Nonconformity. |
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| How did the Romantic authors understand "Primal Nature", "Transcendental Experience" and Time? |
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Primal Nature: connects one with the creator--God
Transcendental Experience: nature is visible spirit, spirit is visible nature
Time: "But the stream I go a-fishing in" |
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