Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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Early 1800s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Cardboard, Pencil
1920s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Charcoal
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Pencil
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Charcoal
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
1920s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink, Pen
1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Crayon, Pencil
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Laid Paper, Pencil
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Charcoal
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Acrylic Polymer, Pencil
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Tempera, Gouache
Early 1800s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1770s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Chalk
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Illustration Board
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Gouache
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Laid Paper
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink