Student 18

April 31, 2000

Romanticism was the time of Mozart and Hayden. The music they made was made up of irregular rhythms. Nobody before them used irregular rhythms in their music. The different type of music proved to be successful and caught on very rapidly by many other composers. This type of music came from each of he person's personalities and became know as individualism. Beethoven was one of the first to use this new type of music in his Eroica Symphony number 3. This symphony used everything from irregular rhythm to diagonal lines. These symphonies might start off slow and then all of a sudden become really fast. This music will "play" with your emotions by it rhythm. The beginning might make someone feel mellow and then all of a sudden you will literally jump out of your seat because of the excitement the music produces. A very famous piece of music during the Romantic period was Tschaikovsky's 1812 overture. This piece is a symbol of nationalism because it talks about invading Russia and the Russian winter kills almost all of the troops. Another thing that makes this piece so unique is the cannon blast and the church bells that you can hear during the music.

The art during this period was also very intersting. The artists also made their paintings unique by the use of different shades of color and diagonal lines. The diagonal lines drew your eyes to the part of the painting that the artist wanted to be the center of attention. The artist used many of the same ideas the composers used when creating their work of art. Some of the artists of the Romantic period were Thomas Cole, J.M.W Turner and Eugene Delcroix. My favorite out of all of the Romantic artists would have to be J.M.W. Turner. I enjoy his many watercolors and I also love ships so I can almost relate to his painting. Some of J.M.W's paintings were very abstract but the way he used color made it that much more interesting. I believe Walter summed up the Romanticism the best when he said "the addition of strangeness to beauty"

The Asian view of the self or Hinduism is very unique in my point of view. Hinduism is more of a way of life rather than an organized religion. The Hinduist believe that in this life time they must achieve unity with the divine to achieve moksha. Moksha is the heaven of the Hindu religion. They believe that it takes many life times to get to this point. No one will achieve unity with the godhead until they have learned how to live properly. The Hinduist believe that if someone does not get to Moshka then they are reincarnated into something else in nature. Because of this belief they do not eat any animal and they do not eat plants until they have died or "the soul has left the bieng." The god in the Hindu religion is really three biengs, Brahma the creator Vishnu the preserver and shiva the destroyer. They believe everyone is free to chooses his or her path and make there own decisions. So the people who make the right decisions will achieve moksha before the others.

I believe Freud made the most interesting view of the self. His idea of the pleasure principle and the reality principle with the super ego trying to satisfy both parts of the brain. A typical example for this is the urge for sex. The pleasure part of the brain tell the person to "go have sex" while the reality part of the brain tells you not to have sex. Now the super ego tells the person what is the right thing to do. Since the pleasure principle was not satisfied the brain represses the feelings and put in the unconscious part of the brain. These repressed feeling comes out in other forms such as dreams or habits such as grinding your teeth or ringing your hands.

I believe my art project is an example of Frued's idea of the self. The reason for this is because all my objects look like they mean something that is really common but in fact they have a much different meaning. For example, on the side of the box there is the word 79' Chevy. Many people would think that this means I like 79 Chevy's this is only partly true. Really my truck that I have is a 79' Chevy Blazer. My dad bought it when it was brand new so I have practically grown up in this truck. Now I am driving it and I took a lady on my first real date in that truck. Well lets just say I love my Truck!!!!