Romanticism

Romanticism, 1800-1840

- The roots of Romanticism are in the 18th century, but usually the term more narrowly denotes the artistic movement that flourished form 1800-1840, between Neoclassicism and Realism. Romantic artists gave precedence to feeling and imagination over Enlightenment reason. Romantic painters explored the exotic, erotic, and fantastic in their art. In Spain, Francisco Goya's Caprichos series celebrated the unleashing of imagination, emotions, and even nightmares - In France, Delacroix led the way in depicting Romantic narratives set in faraway places and distant times. - Romantic painters often chose landscapes as an ideal subject to express the Romantic theme of the soul unified with the natural world. Masters of the transcendental landscape include Friedrich in Germany, Constable and Turner in England.