Questions

Questions

1) LITERARY movement: Age of Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Gothic, briefly sumarize each movement.

During the Age of Enlightenment the major style was Rococo and artist expression centered on the theme “the pursuit of pleasure.”  This is most evident in The Swing, painted by Jean-Honore Fragonard in 1769.

Sculpture in the Age of Enlightenment wasn't much different than the paintings.  Just as in the paintings it centered on pleasure.  This is clearly seen in the sculpture The Intoxication of Wine, by Clodion in 1775, the intimate playfulness of the individuals as they frolic and drink wine in the nude.

Romantic Age

 

The art from the Romantic Age was based on emotion, adventure, nature, common life experiences, and imagination. John Constable was known for teaching artists to use their imagination when drawing their pictures. His painting, The Hay Wain, is considered one of the greatest paintings from the Romantic Age.

Romantics favored subjects that gave the imagination free reign, even to the point of being irregular or irrational. During this time Napoleon was a powerful vehicle of political propaganda and Antoine-Jean Gros cast Napoleon in the guise of Christ healing the wounds of his followers in his famous painting of 'Napoleon Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa'.

Gothic

Gothic is an epithet with a strange history, evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. It is not just a word that describes something (such as a Gothic cathedral); it is almost inevitably a term of abuse, implying that something is gloomy, barbarous, and macabre. Ironically, its negative connotations have made it, in some respects, ideal as a symbol of rebellion. Hence its significance for youth subcultures. Today the words "goth" and "gothic" are popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and mascara'd rock musicians. But the gothic has many layers of meaning. 

2)compare/contrats Delia Jones and the unnamed woman/narrator in the yelow wallpaper.

In this classic late-nineteenth-century story by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression,' is diagnosed with a nervous disorder. Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.

In contrast Anthropologist, folklorist and novelist, Zora Neale Hurston is one of the most acclaimed writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Because of her Southern heritage and her attentive, trained ...