Copia - Interculturales 2 Unit 3

Estudios Interculturales en Lengua Inglesa 2

Geocentric vs. Heliocentric

Spread of ideas

Scientific Revolution

Authority

Enlightment

UNIT 3: Philosophical and Artistic Movements

• Philosophers start to question beliefs about religion, economics, government and education,

• Self-government vs. Social Contract.

• Medieval view of the world vs. New way of thinking (Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo).
• Science vs. Religion
• Rely on authority vs. Rely on reasoning.

Spread of ideas

Scientific Revolution

Enlightment

Philosophical and Artistic Movements

The political situation in England, the new thoughts and values of the time as well as other events had a direct impact on the artistic movements of the period.

Enlightenment, rational thought, the importance of reason.

France:

Restoration of the Monarchy (King Charles II was brought with enthusiasm.

England:

Moments of transition

Tension: old ideas / new ideas

17th and 18th Century

2) Romanticism

1) Neoclassicism

"The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the ancients"Johann Winckelmann

"The same truth that guides the pen of the historian should govern the pencil of the artist"Benjamin West

"A painter should be a man of order"Jaques-Louis David

"Art must have grandeur and moral purpose"Jaques-Louis David

1) Neoclassicism

Buildings with simpler, symmetrical lines but grandeur structures responded, in a way to the excesses of Rococó art

The great fire of London (1666). Some new buildings responded to the Neo Classical style.

The discovery of Pompei meant an awareness over the ancient architecture.

ARCHITECTURE

Buckinham Palace

The British Museum

The National Gallery

Paint:Serious, unemotional, and sternly heroic.

Neoclassicist belief: art should express the ideal virtues in life and could improve the viewer by imparting a moralizing message.

Painters: depicted subjects from Classical literature and history using sombre colours with occasional brilliant highlights.

VISUAL ARTS

2) Romanticism

While the enphasis was set on THOUGHT in neoclassicism, Romantics will focus on EMOTIONS and FEELINGS.

There is also a focus on PERSONAL EXPERIENCE as opposed to Neoclassicism that sought to teach or moralize.

It can be taken as a reaction against the norms and values imposed by the neoclassicism.

VISUAL ARTS