Cultural and Literary Eras

Was inspired to collect my understanding of how these related to one another and their timeframes

Time FrameEraDescriptionEx AuthorsEx Art at the time
1600-1700Baroque and RococoThe Church controlled everything.
1700-1800Neo ClassisismDrew inspiration from classic themes from Greece and Roman Empire. Paralleled with Age of Enlightenment
1800-1850RomanticismEmotions/feelings; agains the bourgeois/aristocratic ideas; nature, person.-Jane Austen
-Bronte Sisters
-Mary Shelley
-Dumas (3 Musketeers)
-Hugo (Les Mis)
-Pushkin (Onegin, Ruslan & Ludmila)
who cares, it was boring
1850-1900RealismRejection of Romanticism. Objective reality and revolt agains exaggerated emotions with a focus on detail of everyday life.
During Victorian Era
-Dostoyevsky
-Tolstoy
-Turgenev
All the key impressionists:
-Manet
-Monet
-Cezzane
-Renoir
-Pissaro.
1900-1950ModernismDue to huge changes in the political and industrial/social world, a rejection
or Realism and promotion of experimentation and innovation (avant-garde).
-The Lost Generation
-Hemingway
-Kafka
-Faulkner
-Anna Akhmatova
-Ezra Pound
-Picasso
-Matisse
-Dali
-Miro
1950---Post ModernismReality and humans' understanding of reality (social constructs) are not the same thing.Vonnegut
Burroughs