Neoclassicism vs. Romanticism

Thesis
•	Classical philosophy contrasts with Romanticism because it gave freedom to the artists and allowed them to go outside the normal formality of art by emphasizing personal responses and emotions.
Romanticism
•	Emphasizes passion and creativity
•	Emotions and freedom
•	Not conforming to formal rules and order
The qualities of Romanticism
•	Nature is living
•	Individuality, love, and freedom
•	Rejects formal rules 
•	Artists rebel
Romanticism’s affect 
•	Literature- disconnected, faraway places
•	Painting- bold lighting, themes abandoned
•	Music- modified classical music
•	Society- noble savage 

Classicism
•	Emphasizes order, balance and simplicity
•	Five movements
•	stresses logic and formality
Five Movements
•	Greeks- 400-300 BC praised reason, not emotions
•	Romans- Two, 80-43BC, 37BC-AD14 adopted Greek, emphasis on society
•	French- 1600’s stress reason and intellect with human ideals
•	English- late 1600’s first half 1700’s, combined all previous movements, strove for good taste
•	Germans- late 1700’s classicism romanticism side by side, emphasized music over literature
Classicism’s Qualities
•	Stresses reason, analysis 
•	accepts things as universally true, good and beautiful
•	looks to past for models
•	follow formal rules of literature
Contrasts of Romanticism and Classicism
•	Romanticism 
•	Poetry- emotional, passionate, and spontaneous
•	Classicism
•	Poetry- normality, order, and wit
Cont’d Contrasts
•	Romanticism
•	Genres- lyrics and odes- nature, inspiration, and passion
•	Classicism
•	Genres- satires, epistles, and epics
Cont’d Contrasts
•	Romanticism
•	Setting- rural, urban considered center of corruption and greed
•	Classicism
•	Setting- urban, rural is seen as ignorant, or it is idealized
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