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Romantic Art

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
Color:  Purple
Coastal Range, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Just three colors were employed, (yellow, blue and violet) in the creation of this acrylic piece where a pair of Orcas cruise the Salish Sea. BC's Coastal Range supplies the backgrou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Acrylic

Moonlight Sonata, Original Signed Romantic Landscape Painting on Canvas
Located in Boston, MA
Moonlight Sonata, Original Romantic Landscape Painting 32" x 47" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Oil on Canvas Hand signed by the artist. This oil painting by artist Lee Campbell...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

"The Dordogne river passing by Civrac", Sheila Querre oil/panel Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"The Dordogne river passing by Civrac" blues and violets colours representing a very romantic and naif landscape by Sheila Querre Dimension art cm: 80 H x 65 W Dimension art inc...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Prague. Rain., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
(ATTENTION ACTION! If you order two paintings third you will get like a gift. The third painting I choose one from my artworks and put it in the package with your order. I hope this ...
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2010s Romantic Art

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An Unlikely Attraction
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This painting was published as the cover for An Unlikely Attraction by Melinda McRae, Signet Regency Romance, Signet Books, 1991. Illustration of a young couple. Signed lower r...
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1990s Romantic Art

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Acrylic, Board

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Romantic art for sale on 1stDibs.

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