Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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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Mid-19th Century Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Mid-19th Century Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
Mid-19th Century Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Handmade Paper
19th Century Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Handmade Paper, Watercolor
1950s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Chalk
1870s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paint, Paper
2010s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Handmade Paper
1980s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
2010s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paint, Paper, Parchment Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel,...
2010s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
2010s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paint, Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, W...
1980s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
2010s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Crayon, Pastel, Handmade Paper, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Archival Paper
1880s Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Early 19th Century Romantic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Color Pencil