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Quiz pp. 637-640

Quiz pp. 637-640. Who were Gustave Flaubert, William Thackeray, and Charles Dickens? What was the artistic style that followed Romanticism? Who were Gustave Courbet and Jean-Francois Millet?

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Quiz pp. 637-640

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  1. Quiz pp. 637-640 • Who were Gustave Flaubert, William Thackeray, and Charles Dickens? • What was the artistic style that followed Romanticism? • Who were Gustave Courbet and Jean-Francois Millet? • What German composer transformed opera into “music drama” in the 19th century and composed the Ring Cycle?

  2. Quiz answers • Writers/novelists • Realism • Artists/painters • Richard Wagner

  3. REALISM • A new materialistic outlook in the arts after 1850 • Rejection of Romanticism • New style of painting and literature A Norman Milkmaid at Greville – Jean Francois Millet

  4. THE REALIST NOVEL • Deals with ordinary characters not strange romantic heroes • Avoids flowery and sentimental language • Use careful observation and accurate description in their writing • Examine social issues

  5. Gustave Flaubert • Leading French novelist of the 1850-1860’s • Master of the realist novel • Madame Bovary 1857 – contempt for bourgeois life/smugness and hypocrisy of the middle class

  6. Charles Dickens • British realist novelist • Wrote numerous classic novels • Focused on middle and lower class life • Set in the early industrial age • David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations Charles Dickens

  7. Charles Dickens – the greatest 19th century British novelist

  8. Realism in Art • Depict everyday life of ordinary people – peasants, workers, prostitutes • Attempt at photorealism • Natural environment

  9. Gustave Courbet & Jean-Francois Millet Courbet self portrait – “I have never seen angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.” The Gleaners – Jean Francois Millet Regular Folks

  10. Music – The Twilight of Romanticism • Richard Wagner • German composer • Created a German national opera • Dramatic music = music + theater/drama • Gesamkunstwerk = total work of art • Used German epic tales and myths from the past as his themes Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–83). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied

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