Romantic Art
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Paint, Lights, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
1910s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
1970s Romantic Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas, Linen
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Paint, Lights, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil, Cotton Canvas, Canvas
2010s Romantic Art
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor, Photographic Film
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1830s Romantic Art
Paper, Gouache
18th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1910s Romantic Art
Alabaster
2010s Romantic Art
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
1920s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
1840s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1830s Romantic Art
Paper, Pencil
1820s Romantic Art
Pencil
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Ink, Paper
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Oil, Wood
1870s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1870s Romantic Art
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Watercolor, Archival Pigment, Spray Paint
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Gouache, Paper
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Romantic Art
Pastel, Paper
2010s Romantic Art
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Panel
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
2010s Romantic Art
Watercolor, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Romantic Art
Watercolor, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
2010s Romantic Art
Oak, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor, Paint, Glass
19th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor
2010s Romantic Art
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor
1980s Romantic Art
Screen
1980s Romantic Art
Screen
1930s Romantic Art
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
1880s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
1860s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas