Romanticism (late 18th Century – early 19th Century)
... I actually feel like this subject slips through my fingers when I try to explain about it. Why? This is because romanticism fall in different categories, as all the artists draw a lot of different paintings, not like other movement like the Impressionists. Romanticism was about people expressing their expression; I mean that in this movement people used to paint or draw anything that show an expression so artists used to focus on whatever turned them on. Romanticism wasn't only based on visual arts; it even included poetry, and music as one of the most famous musician was Beethoven himself producing music through that era.
One asks about how really paintings were during the Romanticism era. This movement wasn’t about romantic scenes at all so.. No, it doesn't refer to romance at all. Romanticism was about being an individualist and believing in rights of others such as deep expressions, intense feelings, and even uplifting emotions. For others it even meant having spiritual relationship with nature.
During the Romantic period, artists for the first time were focusing on teaching people to care about each other which this shows that it was a really such art with a heart. Their paintings used to show and promote different subjects simple as liberty, end of slavery, and even promote politics that were right for their country, just like Delacroix who was a French painter where he painted ‘The Massacre at Chios’ to show support for the Greeks as they struggled for independence from the Turkish empire.
Painting #1 - The massacre at chios (Delacroix)
Painting #2 - Wanderer above the mist (Fredrich)
Painting #3 - Starry night over the rhone (Van Gogh)
Reference : Class notes translated in my own words
... I actually feel like this subject slips through my fingers when I try to explain about it. Why? This is because romanticism fall in different categories, as all the artists draw a lot of different paintings, not like other movement like the Impressionists. Romanticism was about people expressing their expression; I mean that in this movement people used to paint or draw anything that show an expression so artists used to focus on whatever turned them on. Romanticism wasn't only based on visual arts; it even included poetry, and music as one of the most famous musician was Beethoven himself producing music through that era.
One asks about how really paintings were during the Romanticism era. This movement wasn’t about romantic scenes at all so.. No, it doesn't refer to romance at all. Romanticism was about being an individualist and believing in rights of others such as deep expressions, intense feelings, and even uplifting emotions. For others it even meant having spiritual relationship with nature.
During the Romantic period, artists for the first time were focusing on teaching people to care about each other which this shows that it was a really such art with a heart. Their paintings used to show and promote different subjects simple as liberty, end of slavery, and even promote politics that were right for their country, just like Delacroix who was a French painter where he painted ‘The Massacre at Chios’ to show support for the Greeks as they struggled for independence from the Turkish empire.
Painting #1 - The massacre at chios (Delacroix)
Painting #2 - Wanderer above the mist (Fredrich)
Painting #3 - Starry night over the rhone (Van Gogh)
Reference : Class notes translated in my own words
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