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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1890s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
1780s Romantic Art
Aquatint
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Pastel
1780s Romantic Art
Oil Pastel
1830s Romantic Art
Lithograph
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
1980s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor
1830s Romantic Art
Paper, Pencil
1880s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Pigment, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
1920s Romantic Art
Etching
2010s Romantic Art
Linen, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Pastel, Archival Paper
Early 19th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Gouache
1860s Romantic Art
Chalk, Charcoal
2010s Romantic Art
Engraving, Drypoint, Lithograph
2010s Romantic Art
Photogravure
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Wood Panel
20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
19th Century Romantic Art
Mixed Media
1860s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1960s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Oil, Wood
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Engraving
18th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1890s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Lithograph
Early 1800s Romantic Art
Mezzotint
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
18th Century Romantic Art
Crayon, Handmade Paper
1980s Romantic Art
Lithograph
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Pastel
15th Century and Earlier Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
1860s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s Romantic Art
Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Porcelain, Paint
2010s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Acrylic, Canvas
20th Century Romantic Art
Board, Ink, Paper, Pencil
19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Photographic Paper
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Masonite
2010s Romantic Art
Acrylic, Board
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Gouache
1950s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Stone, Gold
1880s Romantic Art
Chalk, Acrylic Polymer, Pencil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Art
Oil
1890s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s Romantic Art
Oil
1820s Romantic Art
Lithograph
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil