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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1870s Romantic Art
Oil, Panel
18th Century Romantic Art
Linen, Oil, Fiberboard
2010s Romantic Art
Acrylic
2010s Romantic Art
Acrylic
2010s Romantic Art
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Panel, Oil
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Other Medium
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Wood Panel, Oil
1970s Romantic Art
Lithograph
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
1920s Romantic Art
Aquatint, Etching
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
19th Century Romantic Art
Etching
2010s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Bronze
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Oil, Wax, Canvas
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Wood Panel, Panel, Oil, Wax
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Mezzotint
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil
1870s Romantic Art
Panel, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Metal
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
1920s Romantic Art
Paper, Lithograph
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Etching, Paper, Drypoint
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Other Medium
1990s Romantic Art
Watercolor
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Wood Panel, Panel, Oil, Wax
1840s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1990s Romantic Art
Encaustic, Canvas
1990s Romantic Art
Encaustic, Canvas
1890s Romantic Art
Mezzotint
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Lithograph, Drypoint, Engraving
1940s Romantic Art
Color Pencil, Oil Pastel
1980s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Marble
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Other Medium
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1820s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil, Wax, Cotton Canvas
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Wax, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper