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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1910s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil
1860s Romantic Art
Watercolor
1860s Romantic Art
Pencil
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1850s Romantic Art
Carbon Pencil
1890s Romantic Art
Graphite
20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
1820s Romantic Art
Pencil
1980s Romantic Art
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
1840s Romantic Art
Carbon Pencil
1890s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1820s Romantic Art
Watercolor
1850s Romantic Art
Carbon Pencil
1820s Romantic Art
Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1870s Romantic Art
Watercolor
1840s Romantic Art
Ink
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil
1830s Romantic Art
Charcoal, Ink
1860s Romantic Art
Pencil, Gouache
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
1840s Romantic Art
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Bronze
1870s Romantic Art
Carbon Pencil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
1860s Romantic Art
Carbon Pencil
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
1850s Romantic Art
Gouache, Watercolor
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Canvas, Acrylic
1850s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1860s Romantic Art
Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Polaroid, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
1890s Romantic Art
Graphite
1860s Romantic Art
Pencil
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Early 2000s Romantic Art
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Wax, Oil
1850s Romantic Art
Ink, Watercolor
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
1820s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1940s Romantic Art
Tapestry
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1840s Romantic Art
Oil
1860s Romantic Art
Ink
19th Century Romantic Art
Bronze
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
20th Century Romantic Art
Conté
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving