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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
Period: 1980s
L'amour
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting one of the early lifetime masterpiece oil paintings by Belgian artist Jessica Rice (1941-2016) "L'amour", has just been released from the personal collection of the arti...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Oil

Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Tree Study & Field in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Proven...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Trees & Cottage in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenanc...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Woman posing oil on burlap painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - La rondeña - Oil on burlap Oil measurements 81x65 cm. Some areas with cracked oil paint. Frameless. Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the gran...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Burlap, Oil

Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x79 cm. Frameless. Slight paint chips Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Goyesque man oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Goyesque man - Oil on canvas Oil measures 100x80 cm. Frameless. Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor José Padilla, a Sp...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Oil, Canvas

Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Old Barn Scene of a Farm in the English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright. Signed, vintage original, oil on heavy grain linen, reframed in a high qu...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

PLAINS OF JUPITER Signed Lithograph, Romantic Landscape, Architectural Ruins
By Harold Hitchcock
Located in Union City, NJ
PLAINS OF JUPITER is a hand drawn color lithograph by the British painter Harold Hitchcock printed using hand lithography on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. In the dreamy, roma...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Lithograph

Road to the Sun
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Road to the Sun. Original silkscreen, 1981. Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naive painter and one of the most eminent lyric painters of the 20th century in Croatia. For many years he wor...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Screen

A New Day
Located in Ljubljana, SI
A New Day. Original silkscreen, 1983. Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naive painter and one of the most eminent lyric painters of the 20th century in Croati...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Screen

Opening the sky
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Opening the Sky. Original serigraphy, 1986. Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naive painter and one of the most eminent lyric painters of the 20th century in Croat...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Screen

Young girls oil on canvas painting portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) - Girls - Oil on canvas Oil measures 81x65 cm. Frameless. Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was the grandson of Professor José Padilla, a Spanish artist who began painting in the nineteenth century. As a child, Puyet learned to paint by watching his grandfather, whose company he preferred to that of children his age. At the age of eight he had started working on paencils and oils. At the age of 20, Puyet entered the Spanish army...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Heart
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Color offset lithograph Made for an exhibition at the Galerie Maeght Paris, 12 April - 20 May 1983. Image in great condition, marginal defects
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1980s Romantic Art

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Lithograph

Winter Demeter
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter is the Olympian goddess of the harvest, presiding over the cycle of life and death.
Category

1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Etching

"The Search" Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist M. Alonso Pérez
Located in Madrid, ES
MARIANO ALONSO PÉREZ Spanish, 1857 - 1930 THE SEARCH signed "Alonso Pérez" (lower right) oil on canvas 23 x 12-1/8 inches (58 x 30.7 cm.) framed: ...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Naturalistic Romantic Style Sublime Dutch Forest Picturesque Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic Romantic style sublime Dutch forest picturesque landscape painting by artist Cja. V. Dijk. The work features a detailed grove of trees with a faint building off in the distance. Signed and dated along front lower margin. Currently hung in a complementary carved gold frame...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

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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Wood Panel, Oil

"Beaumont landscape" . Sheila Querre. Oil on canvas Purple Blue Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"Beaumont landscape" An other Sheila Querre's blue landscape, very much in Romantic Style. Dimension art cm: 65 H x 92 W x 2 D Dimension art inches: 25.6 H x 36.2 W x 2.3 D The c...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

Australian Gum Trees Landscape
By John Sharman (b.1947)
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful landscape of gum trees by listed Australian artist John Sharman (Australian, b. 1947), c.1990. These lovely iconic trees appear in the foreground, while the Australian landscape sprawls out into the distance. Signed "John Sharman" lower right. Displayed in a silver tone giltwood frame. Image size, 21"H x 23"L. Born in Sydney in 1947, John Sharman turned to full time professional art practice in 1980. He became part of a group of artists that included Bob Simpson, Doug Sealy, Robert Wilson, Warwick Fuller...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Blue dreams. Cloudy landscape in blue. Oil/canvas Sheila Querre Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"Blue dreams" oil on canvas, romantic style by Sheila Querre The colours of the original work are a bit lighter than those on the photo. The picture is in good condition despite its...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"The green tree" Sheila Querre. Green monumental landscape. Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"The green tree, monumental landscape" in Romantic style by English artist Sheila Querre. Dimension art cm: 60 W x 81 H Dimension frame cm: 78 W x 97 H x 5 D The colours of the origi...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

"The oak grove". Autumn landscape. Sheila Querre Oil on panel. Romantic style
Located in Segovia, ES
"The oak grove". Oil on panel in Romantic style by Sheila Querre Dimension framed cm: 78 H x 97 W x 5 D Dimension frame inches: 38,18 H x 30,70 H x 1,96 D D...
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1980s Romantic Art

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Wood Panel, Oil

Build me a Dream, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of, Build Me a Dream (Silhouette Special Edition series) by Pat Warren, Silhouette Books, 1989 A young man holding a young w...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Woman with Glove: Large Framed Screen Print by Patrick Nagel
Located in Alamo, CA
This large framed screen print of a Woman with Glove was created by Patrick Nagel, printed by Jeff Wasserman and published by Mirage Editions in 1985. I...
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1980s Romantic Art

Materials

Screen

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Romantic art for sale on 1stDibs.

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