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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1990s Romantic Art
Silver Gelatin
1960s Romantic Art
India Ink, Watercolor
1960s Romantic Art
India Ink, Watercolor
1960s Romantic Art
India Ink, Watercolor
1940s Romantic Art
Color Pencil, Oil Pastel
1990s Romantic Art
Watercolor
1980s Romantic Art
Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1960s Romantic Art
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
20th Century Romantic Art
Ink, Paper
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Paper, Ink, Pen
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Watercolor
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Watercolor, Paper
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Masonite
1980s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
1980s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1950s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Giclée, Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Romantic Art
Burlap, Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Wood Panel
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Wood Panel
1980s Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1920s Romantic Art
Etching
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Early 1900s Romantic Art
Linen, Oil, Board
1930s Romantic Art
Monotype
20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Board, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
1960s Romantic Art
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Art
Oil, Canvas
1960s Romantic Art
Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Romantic Art
Paper
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1920s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
1990s Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Romantic Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Masonite, Oil
Early 20th Century Romantic Art
Oil