Quiz pp. 637-640

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Quiz pp. 637-640

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

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Quiz answers

1. Writers/novelists
2. Realism
3. Artists/painters
4. Richard Wagner

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REALISM

1. A new materialistic outlook in the arts after
   1850
2. Rejection of Romanticism
3. New style of painting and literature

A Norman Milkmaid at Greville Jean Francois
Millet
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THE REALIST NOVEL

1. Deals with ordinary characters not strange
   romantic heroes
2. Avoids flowery and sentimental language
3. Use careful observation and accurate description
   in their writing
4. Examine social issues

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Gustave Flaubert

1. Leading French novelist of the 1850-1860s
2. Master of the realist novel
3. Madame Bovary 1857 contempt for bourgeois
   life/smugness and hypocrisy of the middle class

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Charles Dickens

1. British realist novelist
2. Wrote numerous classic novels
3. Focused on middle and lower class life
4. Set in the early industrial age
5. David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two
   Cities, Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens the greatest 19th century
British novelist
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Realism in Art

1. Depict everyday life of ordinary people
   peasants, workers, prostitutes
2. Attempt at photorealism
3. Natural environment

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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
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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 (181383). The
works are based loosely on characters from the
Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied