Romantic 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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1890s Romantic Paintings
Paper, Canvas, Oil
1850s Romantic Paintings
Oil
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Paintings
Panel, Egg Tempera
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1940s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1990s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1990s Romantic Paintings
Board, Acrylic
1990s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Board
1980s Romantic Paintings
Board, Oil
1920s Romantic Paintings
Charcoal, Board
1920s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1930s Romantic Paintings
Ink, Board, Watercolor
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Ink, Board, Paper, Pencil
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1870s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1920s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1880s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Burlap
Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil
1940s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Late 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil
1990s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Paintings
Linen, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid-20th Century Romantic Paintings
Oil
2010s Romantic Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Romantic Paintings
Canvas, Oil