ENGLISH WRITTEN TEST I - SECOND TERM

In this quotation there is a discussion about the different ways to create art in Modernism and in the Victorian Age.

In Victorian painting there was mainly the representation of traditional narrative scenes. In that period men focused their attention on the image of a narrative scene.

In Modernism, or better in Impressionism there was more attention to the quality of the sensations stimulated by the scenes of a painting.

After Impressionism painters focused their attention on the colour and the form of a portrait or scene and on what they perceived with their mind.

In Impressionism painters produced effects by the use of colour rather than following details of form. They represented nature and everyday reality to express and produce feelings and images about human reality.

Also in literature there was a change in the use of narrative techniques. One example is offered by James Joyce, an Irish writer of novels. He wrote The Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories. The stories aren't apparently connected: there are different characters in different social class. There is only one explicit element, which relates all the novels, that is the characters are all Dubliners. In every story, James Joyce shows a scene of daily life to present an aspect of Dubliners' life.