Romanticism

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Romanticism
A movement in European and American art and
literature lasting from about 1800 to about 1860.
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Characteristics of Romanticism

• Profound love of nature
• Focus on the self, individual
• Fascination with the supernatural (gothic)
• Yearning for the picturesque and exotic
• Idealism

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Profound love of nature expressed in its sublime
beauty
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Focus on the self, especially passionate or
bizarre emotions
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Fascination with the supernatural
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Yearning for the picturesque and exotic
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The Wanderer Caspar David Friedrich
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Idealism, especially for liberty and equality
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Before Romanticism, the artistic movement of the
Enlightenment was Classicism.
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Romanticism vs. Classicism

• Around 1800 to 1860s
• Emotionalism
• Dynamic universe
• Subjective reality
• Art based on individual expression

• 1700s
• Rationalism
• Static universe
• Objective reality
• Art based on logical rules, like laws of nature

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Romanticism vs. Classicism