Art and Protest in the 1800s - Essay Example

One composition of Beethoven is symphony no in C major, op.21. It uses the classical style of music. The features that lead to my conclusion are that the first part which is adagio molto starts with a slow introduction of great luminosity and lyricism, followed by the two themes in a sonata movement (Oscar, 1926). Andate cantabile con molto which is part two is constructed of two themes in the form of sonatas and its ending is a coda. Menuetto, Allegro molto e vivace strays from the minuet type of the Viennese symphonies, revealing a scherzo with a musical substance of maximum simplicity derived from thematic elements of the previous parts (Oscar, 1926).

Part four Allegro molto e vivace has strong Haydnian expression but with distinguishable thematic elements borrowed from the previous part. This reveals a complex form of sonata and becoming an ending for a symphonic cycle (Oscar, 1926).Romanticism was an earlier movement that presented the world in much more idealized terms (Oscar, 1926). It responds to the industrial revolution in such a way that modern artists have taken realism to new heights when they create paintings so realistic that they appear to be real photographs this helps their industry grow because who wouldn’t purchase a painting that that appears real.

Also, they have made sculptures of human beings so lifelike that they are mistaken to be real people (Oscar, 1926).The black slaves used literature in form of poems or songs of which they sang or recited while doing their work to express how they felt about what they were going through as slaves (Oscar, 1926).