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The Romantic Art movement
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. In most parts of Europe, it was at its peak from approximately 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of the past and nature, preferring the medieval to the classical. Featuring artists such as Jacques Louis David, Antoine-Jean Gros, Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, John Constable, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. M. W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich.
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- Romanticism in Art History From 1800-1880
Romantic visual and literary artists glorified things ... which takes us to thorny problem number two: the "things" they glorified were hardly ever physical. They glorified huge, complex concepts such as liberty, survival, ideals, hope, awe, heroism, despair, and the various sensations that nature evokes in humans. All of these are felt—and felt on an individual, highly subjective level. - RomanticismRomanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.
- NeoclassicismThe Neoclassical style arose from first-hand observation and reproduction of antique works and came to dominate European architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.
Neoclassicism
Famous artworks
Liberty leading the people
Eugène Delacroix, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons