Romantic Figurative Photography
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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2010s Romantic Figurative Photography
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2010s Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
2010s Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
2010s Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Paper
1970s Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Paper
20th Century Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Ink, Inkjet
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
1990s Romantic Figurative Photography
Color, Archival Pigment
2010s Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Photography
Archival Pigment
1990s Romantic Figurative Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Early 20th Century Romantic Figurative Photography
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