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Romantic Abstract Paintings

ROMANTIC STYLE

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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Style: Romantic
“The Softest Hour”, 2025, Floral, Rhythmic, Romantic, Framed, Tulips, Nostalgic
Located in Woodstock, GA
"The Softest Hour" is a delicate, heartfelt portrait of two tulips rendered with a quiet grace. Small in size, yet rich in atmosphere, this floral painting captures a fleeting moment...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled #5250
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 ...
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2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

#5091
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...
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Early 2000s Romantic Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

WOP 2 - 00654
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...
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2010s Romantic Abstract Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Turtle Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Beautiful drawing by enigmatic artist Len Poteshman
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Abstract Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Oil

Turtle Man
Turtle Man
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