Romantic Art
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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1860s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
1960s Romantic Art
India Ink, Watercolor
1960s Romantic Art
India Ink, Watercolor
1960s Romantic Art
India Ink, Watercolor
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Paint, Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Paint, Paper
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
1820s Romantic Art
Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving
1860s Romantic Art
Carbon Pencil
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1920s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1870s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1980s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1860s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1860s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
1860s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
1860s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
1860s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
1890s Romantic Art
Graphite
1850s Romantic Art
Ink, Gouache, Pencil
1890s Romantic Art
Ink
20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Acrylic, Board
1810s Romantic Art
Ink
Early 1800s Romantic Art
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Ink
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Linen, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Linen, Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1860s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Etching
1970s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Gouache
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Lithograph
1920s Romantic Art
Watercolor
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Watercolor
1880s Romantic Art
Graphite
1950s Romantic Art
Paper, Watercolor
1740s Romantic Art
Ink
1890s Romantic Art
Ink
1910s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1850s Romantic Art
Paper, Pigment, Engraving, Woodcut
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Crayon
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil