New Directions in Artistic
Expression
—Some artistic
approach reflected logic and
daily lives
—Charles Dickens – novels on human behavior
—Georges Seurat
– pointillism
—But…a lot of art went off on random tangents
—Romanticism – emotion/impression more important than reason/generalization
—Start breaking form – no more poetry rhyming, why plot, painting evocative
—If you want to be literal, use a camera
—Art becomes
abstract – art for art’s sake
—So…basically…there is no one way of doing things – science, or art
—More debate over life –
Conservatism vs. liberalism
—Tensions in the
modern mind
