Romantic Mixed Media
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 20th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Gouache
Early 20th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Gouache
1940s Romantic Mixed Media
Glass, Wood, Paper
Early 20th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Gouache
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Early 2000s Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Wax, Oil
15th Century and Earlier Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Handmade Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Gold Leaf
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Varnish, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
1950s Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
1840s Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
1830s Romantic Mixed Media
Paper, Gouache
Late 19th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Watercolor, Illustration Board
1860s Romantic Mixed Media
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
1880s Romantic Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Paper, Watercolor
Early 19th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Paper, Gouache
Early 20th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Watercolor, Gouache
Early 19th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Paper, Tempera, Gouache
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Romantic Mixed Media
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Romantic Mixed Media
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Mixed Media
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper