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  • Realism And Romanticism
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    At the end of the Baroque Period in the eighteenth and nineteenth century art was divided into two distinct categories, Romanticism and Realism. Romanticism, the passion-filled works illustrating stimulating accounts of specific events with symbolic gestures emerging from the scene, separated itself from the more politically correct stance taken by Realists. A fine example of Romanticism is Gricaults Raft of the Medusa. The brutal scene, set afloat on the wild seas, is emphasized by the chiarosc...
  • Circumstance And Chopin's Short Story
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    #1) If one were to look up realism in the thesaurus, romanticism will be found as the antonym. However in the works of Harriet Prescott Spofford and Kate Chopin these two elements go hand in hand. Focusing on Spofford's short story, "Circumstance", and Chopin's short story, "The Storm", these two selections maintain a smooth transition between realism and romanticism. In Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" she tells of a woman who is visiting a sick neighbor. Where they live neighbors are...
  • 19th Century Realism And Naturalism
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    Realism and Naturalism In Music and Art As intellectual and artistic movements 19th-Century Realism and Naturalism are both responses to Romanticism but are not really comparable to it in scope or influence. For one thing, 'realism' is not a term strictly applicable to music. There are verismo (realistic) operas like Umberto Giordano's Andrea Ch " enter created in the last decade of the 19th century in Italy, but it is their plots rather than their music which can be said to participate in the m...
  • Sturm Und Drang Movement's Outstanding Writer
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    Amanda Body December 3, 2003 General Humanities Purnins Shah 5: Compare and contrast Realism with Romanticism, using examples from both literature and art as the basis of your essay. Romanticism can be defined as an intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that began in the late eighteenth century as a reaction to the neoclassicism and that stressed the emotional, mysterious, and imaginative side of human behavior and the unruly side of nature. Realism can be defined as, in medieval philoso...
  • 15 December 1999 Crane
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    A Study Of Literature "Isms' Essay, Research Study Of Literature "Isms' People change through every generation. But the bidding force through all the generations has been literature. There are four essential classifications for literature, romanticism, realism, naturalism, and existentialism. Romanticism centers "around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth' (VanSpanckeren, "The Romantic Period: Essayist and Poets'). VanSpanckeren sa...

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