Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture 42: CLC1020 - Lecture 42 - March 17
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Verkl rte nacht (transigured night) puts together two strands of german music: brahms (composed two sextets) and wagner (chromaicism) Impressionism: claude debussy: the sea, prelude to the aternoon of a faun; the maid with the flaxen. Chromaicism: richard wagner (gesamtkunstwerk) (gesamt = together; kunst = art; werk = work, gustav mahler (turn of century vienna): 9 1/2 symphonies; lieder, arnold schoenberg (early period): transigured night. Atonality the later schoenberg: arnold schoenberg (later period) Paining with points: fauviste, les nabis = prophet (arabic) Claude monet, impression: sun rising (1872: fleeing brush strokes that create diferent impressions. They wanted to create something concrete and solid; not supericial, leeing and subjecive: wanted a scieniic art, juxtaposiion would be based on the theories of colour. Group together a whole range of painters, who come ater the impressionists. Post-impressionists came in the late 1880"s 18890"s turn of the century. Moving towards abstract art, but not enirely.