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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18th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Cardboard
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil, Cardboard
Early 1800s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Archival Paper, Pastel
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Paper, Watercolor
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1920s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1810s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Gouache
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Chalk
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1950s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil, Charcoal
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Paper
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Paper
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
1740s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Acrylic, Paper, Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Cotton, Paper, Panel, Pencil
1870s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Crayon, Paper
1810s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
1980s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache, Watercolor
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Chalk, Pastel
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1870s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil