Romanticism and Harlem Renaissance



Romanticism and Harlem Renaissance

Romanticism

Romanticism seeks to break away from the Enlightenment. The pre-romanticism is a term used by historians. It means the time when French literature passes the "Enlightenment" in romance. The pre-romanticism is marked by the evolution of a literature-based due to a literature based on feelings, emotions. Romanticism is a literary movement that is opposed to classicism. The romantic author seeks to express and bring out feelings in contrast to the classical author which he says is pretty straightforward. It takes advantage of people. It is against the royalists and youth (Berlin, 1999).

The term romantic descriptive sense is applied to a certain type of art, literature and music, mainly from the early nineteenth century, which shares a number of characteristics: individualism, open emotion, drama and affinity with nature. The poet Baudelaire defines it as intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means which allows the art. In that sense is often compared to its opposite term, classical, that usually tends to refer, in this context, tradition academic.

Art in Romanticism

During the eighteenth century, the trend called neoclassicism got raised, as is known, as a recovery (revival) of the classical values of art and architecture. This concept involves both the art of classical antiquity, especially sculpture and architecture, as artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that were inspired by those models. However, the difference between classical and romanticism in art is not at all clear, given that some artists considered themselves' romantic' as Constable and Turner, were inspired to turn decidedly in classical models.

One aspect of the influence of new romantic spirit and culture of the growth differential is taking the study of popular literature (romances or ballads anonymous stories traditional songs, proverbs) and literatures in regional languages during this period: Gaelic, the Scottish, the Provencal, the Breton, the Catalan, the Galician, and the Basque (Berlin, 1999). This expansion of the national and nationalism was a reaction to French culture eighteenth century, classical and universal spirit, and spread throughout Europe by Napoleon. Romanticism also expanded and renovated enriched the limited language and style of Neoclassicism ushering in the exotic and extravagant, looking for new metrics and flexible combinations or searching the old barbaric and exotic cultures or the Middle Ages, rather than in Greece or Rome, their inspiration.

Music in Romanticism

During the Enlightenment this art form was generally relegated to the background by the aesthetic: it was considered more than just a game of sounds designed to provide enjoyment to the spirit through the senses. That is what Kant said in the 'Critique of Judgment', and that interpretation is joined with a few variations on the first Herder (which later changed point of view, preferring to the romantic side). However, Winckelmann and Lessing, all defenders staunch the neoclassical. The Romantic School, however, for which, as noted above, the various arts were particular manifestations of a principle of activity unique and mysterious in its essence, gave the music a prominent place, because, as claimed ...