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Romantic Figurative Photography

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
Daydreams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series In Between Days Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Lying in the Past
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series In Between Days Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Pas de Deux - Romantic Tango Partner Dance in Central Park Bandshell
Located in Miami, FL
Two Tango Dancers immersed in their art, strike-the-pose under the towering classical half down. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was there at the perfect moment to capture a non...
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2010s Romantic Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

On the Lagoon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lost Venice highlights the Renaissance past of a city that Hadley visited often as a child and where she later lived and worked. Her ethereal, sepia-toned photographs capture the all...
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2010s Romantic Figurative Photography

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"Phalco at Big Window" Romantic Dog Color Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
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