Romanticism

Examples of Romanticism in the following topics:

• Romanticism

  • Romanticism, fueled by the French Revolution, was a reaction to the scientific rationalism and classicism of the Age of Enlightenment.
  • Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
  • Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism.
  • Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples would elevate society.
  • Indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite to Romanticism.

• Painting in the Romantic Period

  • Romanticism was a prevalent artistic movement in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • While the arrival of Romanticism in French art was delayed by the hold of Neoclassicism on the academies, it became increasingly popular during the Napoleonic period.
  • Compared to English Romanticism, German Romanticism developed relatively late, and, in the early years, coincided with Weimar Classicism (1772–1805).
  • In contrast to the seriousness of English Romanticism, the German variety of Romanticism notably valued wit, humour, and beauty.
  • Late-stage German Romanticism emphasized the tension between the daily world and the irrational and supernatural projections of creative genius.

• Romanticism in America

  • American Romanticism emphasized emotion, individualism, and personality over rationalism and the constraints of religion.
  • Romanticism became popular in American politics, philosophy, and art.
  • Romanticism often involved a rapturous response to nature and promised a new blossoming of American culture.
  • Emerson, a leading transcendentalist writer, was highly influenced by romanticism, especially after meeting leading figures in the European romantic movement in the 1830s.
  • By the 1880s, however, psychological and social realism were competing with Romanticism in the novel.

• Realism

  • Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s which rejected Romanticism, seeking instead to portray contemporary subjects and situations with truth and accuracy.
  • Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century, revolting against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism of the movement.

• Painting

  • Neoclassicism and Romanticism were major, interrelated artistic movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • In the visual arts, Romanticism first showed itself in landscape painting, where from as early as the 1760s British artists began to turn to wilder landscapes and storms and Gothic architecture.
  • The arrival of Romanticism in French art was delayed by the strong hold of Neoclassicism on the academies.
  • This work, critical of the government, is among the most important to the Romanticism movement.

• Indonesian Painting

  • His art is heavily influenced by Romanticism.
  • The previous period of romanticism was not seen as a purely Indonesian movement and began to wane, and painters began to turn to the natural world for inspiration.
  • Raden Saleh was perhaps the most famous indigenous 19th century Indonesian painter, and his work is heavily influenced by Romanticism and his training in Europe.

• Revolution in France

  • In the early nineteenth century, elements of Romanticism such as Orientalism, Egyptian motifs, the tragic anti-hero, the wild landscape, the historical novel, and scenes from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, created a vibrant period of art that defies easy classification.
  • Both idealized landscape painting and Naturalism have their seeds in Romanticism.

• Figurative and Abstract Art

  • Three movements which contributed heavily to the development of these styles were Romanticism, Impressionism, and Expressionism.

• Naturalism

  • Romanticism, including the Rococo style, was the predominant artistic movement of the 18th century in Europe, and was itself a backlash against the scientific rationalization of nature indicative of the Enlightenment period.
  • The Barbizon school of painters belonged to a movement towards Realism and Naturalism, which rejected the excess and ornamentation of Romanticism.

• Academic Painting and Sculpture

  • Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art, more specifically, it is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
  • The debate was revived in the early nineteenth century, under the movements of neoclassicism typified by the artwork of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and romanticism typified by the artwork of Eugène Delacroix.