INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES 2- FAS 202

Choose a work of art from the Romantic period that depicts Revolution/war (or anything related to it). Utilize the vocabulary you are learning in this module to examine the work's formal qualities.

Once you have completed your examination, discuss the following: How do the formal qualities convey mood/tone/emotion?

How are you (the viewer) encouraged to feel about this depiction and its participants (e.g. are you encouraged to take sides, be impartial, feel pity for/anger towards anyone)?

Vocabularies in this module are

• Byronic hero- a stereotypical character of a Romantic novel; an exceptional and gifted loner, perhaps misunderstood, who was driven to follow personal passion rather than traditional societal expectations.

• Caricature- a picture, description, or imitation of a subject where certain characteristics are exaggerated to create a comic or grotesque effect.

• Catharsis- the purging of a spectator's strong emotions through experiencing tragedy; one of Aristotle's concepts.

• Dissonance- unstable harmonies that create tension in a composition.

• Gothic revival- Romantic-era architectural movement that employed Gothic forms.

• Hudson River School- an American art movement that focused on Romantic themes and on the sublimity of nature.

• Industrialism- the emphasis on an industrialized economic system.

• Nationalism- a variant of patriotism characterized by intense loyalty to a particular nation and its defining values and features.

• Pictorialism- a school of photography that employed soft focus, special filters and lens coatings, dark room manipulation, and innovative printing processes to try to match aesthetics effects of painting and printmaking.

• Point of view- the position or perspective from which something is viewed or related.

• Realism-art movement of the second half of 19th century that emphasized objective portrayals of the world with a critique of the established social and political order; response to idealized Romantic art.

• Romanticism- art movement of early 19th century that stressed passion, emotion, and exotic settings with dramatic action; response to rationalism of Neoclassicism.

• Victorian photography- photography in the 19th century that experimented with realistic portraits and images of literary and biblical scenes.