What Was Romanticism And Why Was It So Vital For Art? | Landmarks Of Western Art

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. In most parts of Europe, it was at its peak from approximately 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of the past and nature, preferring the medieval to the classical. Featuring artists such as Jacques Louis David, Antoine-Jean Gros, Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, John Constable, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, J. M. W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich.

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[tye]

This is great. I've always liked old art, like pre-20th century painting. And certain types of paintings speak to me, and others just do nothing for me. But I haven't really been able to articulate _which_ types of older paintings I like until recently, learning about art history and different movements like Romanticism and Mannerism, late-Baroque/rococo. It really is helpful to know about these broad movements within art, helps me find different paintings I like and know what to look for now that I can describe what I like using such terms. And I love the Romantic era. I think these are the greatest paintings ever made. Stuff like Napoleon Crossing the Alps. It doesn't matter that it isn't a perfectly realistic portrayal. Idealizing him does so much more for the painting emotionally, like it's not merely a painting of Napoleon it is a painting of determination, of epic triumphs. A symbol of the shining French Empire against the bleak landscape. It is genius tbh. Great painting.

[fireofhislove]

Growing up I had no interest in artwork. Now that I am learning about history the art that I see brings me to tears with its unfathomable beauty.

[antoniomoreira]

Not sure this is the right niche, however there's a channel named Schwerpunkt who addressed some issues of Romanticism in a video about the meaning of Renaissance. It goes greatly in pair with this and the meaning of traditional understanding of art/the world

[popesuavecitoxii]

Great documentary. Thanks for posting!

[TracyPicabia]

@27:00 The Sleep of Reason arguably shows as forcefully as any of his paintings, how Goya was SO much more than a Romantic and SO much more enlightening, deeper, rational and truthful than Gericault or David or Delacroix

[danielapaparini-jjkw]

Grazie per il video è il suo contenuto

[fabiodeoliveiraribeiro]

The way man perceives the world undergoes sensitive changes. But they are slow and first occur in the depths of human consciousness and generally take time to reach the surface of life in society. When a revolution explodes, it only consolidates as a "fait accompli" a transformation of human sensitivity (and of the economy as well) that had already become irresistible. In this sense, romanticism preceded the romantics and was certainly only the object of reflection when the movement became very visible.

[chriskappert]

I don't know why, but dispite the craftmanship of these paintings they don't move me in any way as the later Impressionists do .
Is it the somewhat vage blurry image as if I am dreaming, looking into the fog ?
From the first time I saw the Moulin de la Gallete I was hooked on Impressionism !

[karinneumannmurphy]

Goethe a He was a thorough classist, a fervent hater of Romanticism, saying at one stage that' Classicism is healthy - Romanticism is sick'. He also wanted to 'dash the paintings of CD Friedrich (the greatest German Romantic painter ) on the edge of a table'. Goethe's colour theory addressed purely the biological basis of human reaction to colour and definitely not their subjective emotional value.

[TracyPicabia]

Nowhere on this page has anybody bothered to tell us when the film was made. Is William Cummins dressed like that because its 1948?

[CONNELL]

This is so bland; I much prefer Waldemar's passion for art.