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Romanticism

Romanticism is a European and American movement extending from about 1800 to 1850.

Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style, technique, or attitude, but romantic painting is generally characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and a dreamlike or visionary quality.

Whereas classical and neoclassical art is calm and restrained in feeling and clear and complete in expression, romantic art characteristically strives to express by suggestion states of feeling too intense, mystical, or elusive to be clearly defined. Thus, the German writer E. T. A. Hoffmann declared "infinite longing" to be the essence of romanticism.

In their choice of subject matter, the romantics showed an affinity for nature, especially its wild and mysterious aspects, and for exotic, melancholic, and melodramatic subjects likely to evoke awe or passion.

Artists related to Romanticism
William Blake
John Constable
Eugene Delacroix
Caspar David Friedrich
Johann Heinrich Fussli
Thomas Gainsborough
Theodore Gericault
Francisco de Goya
Joseph Mallord William Turner


 

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