AP European History AMSCO Guided Notes

7.8: 19th-Century Culture and Arts

AP European History
AMSCO Guided Notes

AP European History Guided Notes

AMSCO 7.8 - 19th-Century Culture and Arts

Essential Questions

  1. What were the continuities and changes in European artistic expression from 1815 to 1914?
I. Romanticism in Art, Music, and Literature

1. What was Romanticism and how did it represent a reaction against Enlightenment principles?

2. How did Romantic artists view the role of the individual creator and imagination in their work?

A. Looking Inward

1. What did Romantics mean by introspection and what subjects did they focus on in their work?

2. How did Romantic artists use nature as a response to what they saw as the corruption of modern society?

B. Individual Expression

1. How did the status and role of artists change by the end of the Romantic era?

II. Romanticism in Art

A. Landscapes

1. How did Caspar David Friedrich use composition and perspective to convey emotion in his landscapes?

2. What techniques did John Constable and J. M. W. Turner use to represent nature, and how did their approaches differ?

B. Politics

1. How did Francisco Goya and Eugène Delacroix use their paintings to express nationalism and political themes?

III. Romanticism in Music

A. Romantic Composers

1. How did Ludwig van Beethoven's musical innovations mark a transition from classical to Romantic style?

2. What characteristics made Frédéric Chopin's piano compositions distinctive examples of Romantic music?

3. How did Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky incorporate nationalism into his most famous works?

B. Historical Influences and Wagner

1. How did Romantic composers use folk melodies and national traditions in their compositions?

2. What made Richard Wagner's operas innovative in form, and how did he combine content and musical style?

IV. Romanticism in Literature

A. Romantic Writers and Themes

1. What sources of inspiration did Romantic writers draw from, and how did they differ from Enlightenment approaches?

2. How did Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and William Wordsworth contribute to Romantic literature and cultural nationalism?

3. What themes did Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats explore in their poetry?

B. Notable Romantic Authors

1. How did Lord Byron's life and beliefs influence his literary work and political activism?

2. What social themes did Victor Hugo and Mary Shelley address in their novels?

V. Realist Art and Literature

1. How did Realism differ from Romanticism in subject matter and artistic approach?

2. What role did materialism and social observation play in shaping Realist art and literature?

VI. Realist Art

A. Realist Painters and Their Work

1. How did Gustave Courbet's approach to painting challenge European artistic traditions?

2. What did Realist painters like Jean-François Millet and Ilya Repin accomplish through their depictions of ordinary people?

VII. Realist Literature

A. Realist Novelists and Naturalism

1. How did Honoré de Balzac pioneer literary realism, and what characterized his approach to depicting society?

2. What was naturalism and how did Émile Zola exemplify this movement in his writing?

3. How did Realist writers like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy portray the lives of working-class and rural people?

B. Psychological and Social Depth

1. What psychological and philosophical dimensions did Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy bring to their novels?

2. How did George Eliot use her novels to critique middle-class society and domestic life?

VIII. Modern Art

1. How did the invention of photography influence the development of modern art movements?

2. What was the shift from representational to nonrepresentational art, and what did modern artists emphasize instead?

A. Modern Art Movements

1. What were the key characteristics of Impressionism and how did it emphasize light and color?

2. How did Post-Impressionism and Expressionism differ from Impressionism in their approach to emotion and subject matter?

3. What did Fauvism and Cubism accomplish in moving away from realistic representation?

4. How did African art influence the development of Expressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism?

B. Modern Artists and Their Contributions

1. How did Claude Monet and Edgar Degas approach Impressionism differently in their work?

2. What techniques did Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne use to move beyond realistic representation?

3. How did Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso use color, form, and perspective to create innovative modern art?

Key Terms

Romanticism

Caspar David Friedrich

John Constable

J. M. W. Turner

Francisco Goya

Eugène Delacroix

Ludwig van Beethoven

Frédéric Chopin

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Richard Wagner

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

William Wordsworth

Lord Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

Mary Shelley

Victor Hugo

realism

Gustave Courbet

Jean-François Millet

Ilya Repin

Adolph von Menzel

Honoré Daumier

naturalism

scientific determinism

Honoré de Balzac

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Leo Tolstoy

Émile Zola

modern art

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Cubism

Claude Monet

Edgar Degas

Henri Matisse

Paul Cézanne

Vincent van Gogh

Pablo Picasso