Romanticism: 1800 - 1880.

In many ways it can be said that interests in far away lands and travel fueled Romanticism. It was a reaction against Neoclassicism.

Romanticism has bold brush strokes and rich colors.

Romanticism artists included: Goya, Delacroix, Theodore Gericault and Caspar David Friedrich. Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity in untamed nature and its qualities that are "picturesque", both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom, as well as arguing for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.



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