Strayer University Comparison Between British Art and French Romantics Essay

I’m working on a cultural studies discussion question and need support to help me study.

Each week we will be looking at a set period from our past. Although these are our ancestors, it will seem like we are studying a distant planet, inhabited by people with the strangest of habits. Fortunately, these subjects of our observation give us abundant clues about who they are. Their art, their writing, their technology, the way they do business, the way they govern

themselves all feed into a picture we will attempt to paint for ourselves each week. Understanding who they were will help us understand who we are.

Each week you will be given three or four questions pertaining to important topics covered in the materials provided in the question itself, the textbook, the lectures, the other materials provided, and my comments in my Live Session. You choose the one question you like and post a response of 125 words or more. You also need to respond to another post from one of your fellow students. This second post should be at least 60 or so words long and should not just agree with or repeat what has been said.

Please always use an example that has not already been used in the discussion if possible.

1. Last week we saw three revolutions succeed and yet, the advances were rolled back in many ways and places. Napoleon, while a son of the French Revolution, became a dictator. Using either Spain or Haiti as an example, explain why and how the ideas of the French Revolution did not extend to those countries. Did the American and Haitian Revolutions succeed and the French Revolution fail?
2. Your book does a good job of explaining the “Romantic Imagination”. What is the “Romantic Imagination”? Use a Romantic painter as an example and compare how that painter fitss the definition of “Romantic” as compared to an example of a Romantic poet of your choice.
3. Your book says,” In great symphonies like the Eroica and the Fifth, he (Beethoven) defined the Romantic style in music.” How do you define “the Romantic Style of music”? How is it different from Classical music and how does Beethoven’s music compare with later Romantic composers?
4. How did the Industrial Revolution change cities? What impact did it have on the life of people who already lived in a city that added factories? What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on the life of those who moved to the cities to work in these factories? How did artists react to the changes?
5. Romantic painting could be very different depending on where the art was being done. Yet, painters during this time shared a passion for the natural world, for drama, for ancient things. Compare the work of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner with the French realists Delacroix and Gericault. How are the similar? Are the French realists still Romantics?