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Romantic Still-life Sculptures

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
"ROMAN OPERA HOUSE", stoneware clay sculpture, copper green glaze Italy hilltown
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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"BLUE HANDLE HORSE", stoneware clay sculpture, blue clay inlay, storybook equine
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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"KING BABAR HORSE", stoneware clay sculpture, Iron Yellow glaze, storybook
Located in Toronto, Ontario
KING BABAR HORSE is a stoneware clay sculpture with Iron Yellow Glaze by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 22"H x 13"W x 7"D. It's an ench...
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"TUSCAN YIN/YANG CASTLE", stoneware clay sculpture, glaze ancient Italy hilltown
Located in Toronto, Ontario
TUSCAN YIN/YANG PRISON is a stoneware clay sculpture with Butterscotch glaze by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 20"H x 25"W x 13"D. The ...
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"CHAMBERLAIN", porcelain clay sculpture, turquoise glaze, royal court, medieval
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CHAMBERLAIN is a porcelain clay sculpture with Turquoise Glaze and slip, by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 23"H x 19"W x 9"D. It's an e...
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"ENDLESS STAIRCASES OF SIENA", stoneware clay sculpture, Italy ancient hill town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
ENDLESS STAIRCASES OF SIENA is a stoneware clay sculpture with slips and engobes by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 16"H x 17"W x 11"D. ...
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"CASTLE CHANCELLOR", porcelain clay sculpture, turquoise glaze, royal court
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CASTLE CHANCELLOR is a porcelain clay sculpture with Turquoise Glaze and slip, by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 24"H x 22"W x 11"D. It...
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"CASTLE LORD", porcelain clay sculpture, turquoise glaze, royal court, medieval
Located in Toronto, Ontario
CASTLE LORD is a porcelain clay sculpture with Turquoise Glaze and slip, by Brooklyn, New York artist Rene Murray. It measures 26"H x 23"W x 10"D. It's an ...
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