Europe 1800 - 1900

This course is a part of Art history, a 20-course Topic series from Khan Academy.

Brought to you by Smarthistory. People use the term “modern” in a variety of ways—often very loosely, with a lot of implied associations of new, contemporary, up-to-date, and technological. The development of capitalism, urban culture, technology, and a growing middle class had an enormous impact on art.

This course contains 7 segments:

Introduction to 19th century art

Romanticism

Brought to you by Smarthistory. Artists such as Delacroix, Goya, Turner, and Friedrich responded to a newly modern world by creating some of the most emotionally expressive art ever made.

Early photography

Victorian art and architecture

Brought to you by Smarthistory. Pugin, Burne-Jones and other 19th-century British artists responded to the industrialized present by looking to an idealized past.

Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Brought to you by Smarthistory. Courbet, Manet, Degas, and van Gogh used subjective experience to invent new ways to see.

Symbolism & Art Nouveau

Russia: The Wanderers

Brought to you by Smarthistory. The Peredvizhniki artists set out to create unvarnished representations of contemporary Russian life.