Romanticism

Romanticism is representing a way of feeling and an intellect of elevation. It originated in the late eighteenth century and advanced through the nineteenth century. The Romantic Movement had a different way of understanding and interpreting. They had deep thoughts about liberty, existence, standards, hope, respect, heroism, misery, and other perceptions that human being feels. Romanticism fought for social equality, constitution, spiritualism and for the nature surrounding them. Visual Art as well as literary and music were provoked by the Romanticism Movement.Terrifying scenes painted by visual artists where inspired by the GermanSturm und Drang movement in the late 1760s to the early 1780s. 

Henry Fuseli’s 

The Nightmare (1781)

During the romantic era, the artists had to show a lot of emotion. Every person had to have a communication and a landscape had to have a setting of character. The portraits weren't direct, honest emotions, the artist would have depict the emotion depending on the surrounding.

Nature is one dominant theme in Romantic Art. Since there inspiration came from current events, they also got motivation from natural disasters like thunderstorms, lightning strikes, floods, earthquakes, fires and blizzards.

J. M. W. Turner

Shipwreck of the Minotaur (1810)

 Any mood there is, one of the Romantic artists would have carried it on canvas. Romanticism Art gave complete freedom to the Artist. The visual artist could use any technique, smooth or rough brushstrokes.

The Romantic Artists were different from others because of the way they judged and felt about any given subject. Romanticism individual artists where even different from each other but still had common elements. Francisco de Goya’s work interpreted madness and oppression, while Caspar David Friedrich was fascinated by the moonlight and fog.  

I personally really like the way that the Romanticism Artist pass their message through their paintings in a breaking tradition rules kind of way. They give us a sense of freedom and Interdependency. 

Harvard Referencing System: Romanticism - About.com. 2014 - Romanticism - Art History 101 basics. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/od/renaissancearthistory/a/Romanticism-101.htm [Accessed 5 March 2014].