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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Untitled #5250
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and ...
Canvas, Oil
$37,000
#5091
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on layered canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...
Canvas, Wax, Oil
WOP 2 - 00654
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.75 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint...
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Price Upon Request
Turtle Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Beautiful drawing by enigmatic artist Len Poteshman
Charcoal, Oil
$2,400
H 24 in W 24 in D 2 in
Patricia Fabricant, Blue Jellyfish 4, 2003, Oil On Canvas, 24 x 24, Naturalism
Located in Darien, CT
Patricia Fabricant is a painter curator, and award-winning book designer, born in New York City. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and studied painting in Florence Italy. Her abstract and figurative paintings have been exhibited widely at such galleries as ODETTA, M David & Co, Front Room, SFA Projects, Equity Gallery, Morgan Lehman, the Painting Center, and 490 Atlantic. Her curatorial practice includes three editions of the benefit group show, Among Friends, Studio Mates at Front Room Gallery, and With the Grain, at Equity Gallery. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Patricia Fabricant has a deep and abiding interest in process-driven work, from mandalas and yantras to Aboriginal song-line paintings, Islamic tiles...
Canvas, Oil
$2,780Sale Price|20% Off
H 27 in W 37 in D 2 in
Antique American Modernist 19th Century Framed Sunset Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist landscape sunset painting. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy....
Canvas, Oil
$37,750
H 36 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Regines Black Diamond" White Bunnies on Monochrome Diamond Dust Oil on Canvas
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts white gestural figures of Bunnies against a black diamond dust background. Slonem traces ...
Canvas, Oil, Glass
$750
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.75 in
'Untitled Abstract Horses and Cow', by David Crown, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 20" x 24" oil on canvas painting by David Crown dates to 1985. The focal point of this painting are three animal figures in the foreground rendered in...
Canvas, Oil
$32,000
H 36 in W 48 in
"Red Butterflies, 1998" Large Textured Abstract Oil Painting Metallic Gold
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Austin, TX
Canvas Size: 36 x 48 inches. Hand Signed, dated, inscribed on verso. The iconic and wildly popular works of Hunt Slonem are a the essence of lavishness and luxury. They are inspire...
Canvas, Oil
Magic - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has dedicated her life to artistic...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Graphite
$8,000
H 14.5 in W 12.5 in D 1.25 in
"Hey" Black Outline Bunny on Castleton Green Background Oil Painting Wood Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a castleton green background with thick use of pain...
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,028
H 15.75 in W 20.87 in D 0.79 in
Light 28 August 19:59, Modern Landscape Painting, Minimalistic, Abstract, Sea
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Weight Of Air VIII
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Weight of Air VIII, 2019 Oil & wax on deep-fame canvas
Canvas, Wax, Oil
$3,100
H 24 in W 42 in D 2 in
'How To Begin Again' - abstract landscape, sublime, floral, triptych
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of green, yellow, pink and orange. It is a work on paper mounted to panel. The materials used are watercolors made with clay & weathering rind found in Georgia, copper oxide, watercolor & acrylic on paper mounted on panel, protected with beeswax. This piece is part of a recent show titled "love as large as grief demands." Heather ‘Bird’ Harris...
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
Passion - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has dedicated her life to artistic...
Gesso, Canvas, Wax, Oil
$4,597
H 47.25 in W 47.25 in D 1.07 in
Blue Landscape, Oil Paint on Canvas, large size, Art by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
This original artwork by Marilina Marchica is a unique, non-reproducible abstract oil painting on hand-stretched cotton canvas. Titled Blue Landscape, the piece evokes the depth and ...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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H 60 in W 30 in D 1 in
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
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H 30 in W 60 in D 1 in
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
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H 60 in W 30 in D 1 in
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Bright Lights
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Bright Lights depicts the hills of Fiesole, in Tuscany, Italy. At sundown, the glow of the hidden sun remains and shines bright orange above the horizon. Speckles of light along the ...
Copper
Untitled Impressionistic Riverside Landscape
By Alfred Zeller
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalism painting of a river landscape with a figure in a boat. Small scale painting has soft blue and green tones. Artist Biography: Alfred Zeller born in Germany but lived an...
Oil
#5251
By Hiro Yokose
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky and ...
Canvas, Oil