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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Brooklyn Bridge Abstraction with Romantic Out of Focus Floral Colors
Located in Miami, FL
The romantic merges with the classic in Mitchell Funk's 1970s interpretation of the Brooklyn Bridge. With a long lens, Funk incorporates the emotionally joyful colors of out-of-focu...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$6,000
Romantic Bethesda Fountain with Angel of the Waters Bronze Statue Colorful Water
Located in Miami, FL
A long lens isolates three nude chubby child figures from the Angel of the Waters Bronze Statue in Central Park. They are juxtaposed with three modern-day figures in a rowboat. The...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fairy tale Blue Duck Glides on a Magical Blue Pond
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk brings the compositional ...
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sugarcane Moon-Limited Edition
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
30 x 45 inches ($5200) and 40 x 60 inches ($7200), limited editions of 10, printed on Archival Watercolor Fine Art Paper, 335 gram weight, signed by the artist. Cheryl Maeder was bo...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
$1,101
H 29.53 in W 19.69 in
The Bog Renaturated 016 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial view photography, blue colour
Located in Paris, FR
The Bog Renaturated 016 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is an archival pigment print on Hahnemüle Fine Art Paper. This photograph is sold u...
Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
$380
H 7.88 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
Eternity (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Eternity (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inven...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 50 in D 1 in
"Tokyo Crossing" contemporary and exotic, cross-processed photography on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a beautiful contemporary abstract cityscape photograph of the busy streets of Tokyo. The photograph was taken with a medium format Holga camera and the film is crossed-proces...
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
$1,101
H 29.53 in W 19.69 in
The Bog Renaturated 013 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial view photography, blue colour
Located in Paris, FR
The Bog Renaturated 013 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is an archival pigment print on Hahnemüle Fine Art Paper. This photograph is sold u...
Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
Almost At Rest - Ltd Ed of 10
By Kat O'Neill
Located in New York, NY
Abstract feeling shot of rock in the water. Shot in Montauk. Exposure creates painterly feel. Ltd Ed of 10. The art can be inside or outside with no visible loss of resolution. ...
Metal
$753
H 15.75 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Blue (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 40x50cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 3962. Signature label ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$405
H 7.88 in W 9.45 in D 0.04 in
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 20273. Signature label ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Looking Glass
By Susie Loucks
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Time lapse photograph
Archival Ink
$405
H 7.88 in W 9.45 in D 0.04 in
Revisions (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Revisions. (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 15714. Signatur...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$405
H 7.88 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
Earthquake (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Earthquake (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4599 Signature l...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$405
H 7.88 in W 9.45 in D 0.04 in
Dawn (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dawn (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 20272. Signature label...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid