A literary and artistic movement originating in Europe in the late eighteenth century, aimed at asserting the validity of subjective experience as a countermovement to the often cold formulas of Neoclassicism.
Movement that began in the late 18th century and was characterized by a highly imaginative and emotional treatment of life.
A philosophical and artistic movement from the late 1700s and early 1800s which advocated freedom of form and spirit, an emphasis on feeling and originality and on the personality of the artist himself, and which expressed a sympathetic interest in primitive nature and the common man.
A style of painting ( middle 19th century) that featured adventure, action, imagination and an interest in foreign happenings and people.
Emphasis on the spiritual or passionate (as opposed to the intellectual) in literature, art, and music. In music used particularly to describe music written from c. 1830 to the end of the century: expressive, sometimes exotic, sometimes grotesque or dealing in the supernatural, nearly always embodying great emotional fervor.
Broad term for 19th century musical style which mirrored many attributes of the movement of the same name in art and literature. Romantic composers embraced emotion over reason and the power of nature and its redemptive qualities, and had a fascination with extroversion and the macabre.
a movement that was revolting against classicism and the Enlightenment, it was characterized by a belief in emotional exuberance, unrestrained imagination, and spontaneity in both art and personal life. (p. 766)
The Romanticism movement used landscape in its faithful representation. Artists took their inspiration from reality, natural settings and landscapes became the main subject matter often including members of the lower class like laborers, peasants and country life, in their artwork. Rapid brush strokes with a free spreading of paint on canvas to use effects of light became popular and almost abstract in English paintings. Some painters used overwhelming forces of nature, showing storms and blizzards while others used clam and tranquil scenes and meadows that would later influence the Impressionists.
A nineteenth-century European movement away from neoclassic formalism and toward outsized passions, exotic and grotesque stories, florid writing, and all-encompassing worldviews. Supplanted in the late century by realism, romanticism survives today primarily in grand opera and nineteenth-century-based musicals.
a literary movement (as in early 19th century Egnland) marked especially be emphasis on the imagination and the emotions and by the use of autobiographic al material
A movement of nineteenth-century artists such as Delacroix, Géricault, Turner, and others. It was the romantic spirit characterized by an experimental point of view and extolled spontaneity of expression, intuitive imagination, and the picturesque rather than a carefully organized, rational approach.
A European movement of the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century. In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression. The subject matter was invested with drama and usually painted energetically in brilliant colors. Delacroix, Gericault, Turner, and Blake were Romantic artists.
a style of art that flourished in the early nineteenth century. It emphasized the emotions in a bold and dramatic manner. Romantic artists produced idealised pictures of nature in its untamed state, or other exotic settings filled with dramatic action, often with an emphasis on the past.
late 18th- and early 19th-century movement that emphasized the values of passionate emotion and artistic freedom. Romanticism was a philosophical attitude that emphasized emotion, imagination, mystery, and the pursuit of one’s unique destiny. The Romantics had a deep fascination with historical literature and artistic styles that stood in contrast to a world that was becoming increasingly industrialized and developed. The Romantics’ artistic approach was, in part, a rejection of the classical artistic values of the Neoclassical movement. Rather than finding their artistic guidance in the classical principles of harmony, idealized realism, or clarity, the Romantics sought inspiration from intense personal experiences.
a movement of the 19th century that sought to replace the great emphasis on reason with a new focus on feelings, emotions, and nature. Nature often came to replace God, and reason was seen as a restraint on true feeling.
A literary and artistic movement that swept through Europe in the early nineteenth century; its defiance of neoclassical principles and rationalism roughly parallels the political upheaval of the French Revolution, with which it is often associated. Romanticism in its simplest form exalts nature, the innocence of children and rustics, private emotion and experience, and the pursuit of political freedom and spiritual transcendence.
A movement in Western art of the 19th century generally assumed to be in opposition to Neoclassicism. Romantic works are marked by intense colors, turbulent emotions, complex composition, soft outlines, and sometimes heroic subject matter.
shows itself in the artist's attitude of mind and choice of subject. It entered the language of art criticism in the eighteenth century (and has since become more widely applied). The word derives from the from the Romances of the Middle Ages, which were written in Romance languages (ie languages, like French) deriving from Latin.. They told of chivalrous deeds in 'romantic' settings. By the late-eighteenth century 'romantic' was being used as a term which contrasted with 'classical'. Nicholas Pevsner argued that the 'irregularity' which affected English gardens in the first quarter of the eighteenth was the first breath of romanticism on European art. Other historians talk of the whole eighteenth century as a 'pre-romantic' period in contrast with the full-blown romanticism of the nineteenth century. Ruined temples beame more significant than new temples because they had a greater affect on the viewer's attitude of mind, suggesting the passage of time, human frailty and heroic deeds in ancient times.
in the early 19th century, a movement in art that rejected the more objective, reasoning style of classicism and embraced a more dramatic, personal and emotional style even to the point of melancholic emotion.
an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions
An art style which emphasizes the personal, emotional and dramatic through the use of exotic, literary or historical subject matter.
A broad movement in the arts of the 18th-19th centuries that focused on the experience of the individual. In the field of art, Romanticism did not produce a particular style since it focused on an idea rather than an approach to artistic production. Exponents of Romanticism in art include the landscape artists Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Mallord William Turner.
The principles and ideals of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Romanticism, which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th century, favored feeling over reason and placed great emphasis on the subjective, or personal, experience of the individual. Nature was also a major theme. The great English Romantic poets include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
A nineteenth-century international movement in both art and literature that rejected the order and restrictions of neoclassicism in favor of individual freedom of expression and greater emphasis on feeling. Romantic painting tends to be rich in color, mood, and atmosphere.
A reaction against neoclassicism. This early 19th- century movement elevated the individual, the passions, and the inner life. It stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
Neo-classicism rebellion embodying purity of the soul. Much use of light and primary colours
An artistic movement, prefigured in the mid 18th century, which became very popular in the 19th century. Romanticism was opposed to rationalism not only in its expression of personal feelings and imagination, but also in its representation of exotic and transcendental subjects.
Strong emotion. Legitimised the individual imagination as a critical authority. Late 18th Century. Romanticism stressed the 'awe' of nature in art and language and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature.
Period of literature in Europe from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century emphasising emotions and imagination rather than the rationalism that had gone before.
A movement of literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
A reaction to the rationality of Enlightenment thought and the staid NEOCLASSICISM of mid-18th-century art. This artistic concept, which asserted the validity of subjective experience, entails a love of exotic or foreign subjects, rich colors, and a dramatic use of light and line. Romantic artists often explore themes of passion, imagination, and the subconscious.
A literary and artistic movement of late 18th and 19th century Europe, aimed at asserting the validity of subjective experience as a countermovement to the often-cold formulas of Neoclassicism. Pictures characterized intense emotional excitement and powerful forces in nature, exotic lifestyles, danger, suffering, and nostalgia. Has developed to represent art of any period based on spontaneity, intuition, and emotion rather than carefully organized rational approaches to form.
a literary movement of the early nineteenth century typically characterized by self-expression and emotionalism, and sometimes by the use of informal poetic language and radical politics. More generally taken to denote any poetry or poetics founded on self-expression.
An early 19th-century movement that elevated the individual, the passions, and the inner life. Romanticism, a reaction against neoclassicism, stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
1. A literary and artistic movement of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, aimed at asserting the validity of subjective experience as a countermovement to the often cold formulas of Neoclassicism; characterized by intense emotional excitement and depictions of powerful forces in nature, exotic lifestyles, danger, suffering, and nostalgia. 2. Art of any period based on spontaneity, intuition, and emotion rather than carefully organized rational approaches to form.
an intellectual and artistic movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Originating in Europe, where it was associated with Rousseau, Wordsworth, Goethe, and other artists and philosophers, the influence of Romanticism eventually spread to America, where it found adherents in figures like Bryant, Emerson, and Thoreau. Valuing imagination over intellect, passion over reason, and artistic self-expression over reverence for tradition, the Romantics reacted to what they viewed as the excessive rationalism and classicism of the European Enlightenment.
Early nineteenth-century literary romantics believed that change and growth were the essence of life, for individuals and for institutions. They valued feeling and intuition over reason and pure thought, and they stressed the differences between individuals, rather than their similarities.
Movement in art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature, as opposed to civilization, and valued emotion and imagination rather than rationality. Impressionism, as well as 20th century art in general, was greatly influenced by the Romantic movement.
Artistic and literary movement of the 19th century in Europe; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection. (p. 717)
Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. In part a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a reaction against the rationalization of nature, in art and literature it 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 of nature. It elevated folk art, nature and custom, as well as arguing for an epistemology based on usage and custom.