Artistic Currents - Romanticism

Romanticism

Starting in the last decade of the 18th century till the middle of the 19th century, Romanticism dominated European art and culture and it seemed that it was there to stay. It began as an intelectuall and artistic movement of revolt and rejection against most values already established and cherished, exalting individualism, irrationalism, subjectivism. The most attacked values were related to religion and social standards, as senses and emotions were due to take over reasoning and intelect. The Romantic artist was free, with a virtually unlimited potential of creation, choosing his own set of ideals and values, promoting his own principles. An outcast in a dead and mortified world, the Romantic was revolted.
They investigated nature, genius, were fascinated by heroes and the folk tales, and especially by national and ethnic identity and most important by sentiments and love.
In art, Romanticism was characterised by detailed and rich compositions, with strong colours, depicting scenes of love, of heroism, legends and great characters of literature and history, landscapes.

Artists

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Eugene Delacroix
Theodore Gericault
Jacques-Louis David
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
Antoine-Jean Gros
Adelaide Labille-Guiard
Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
Francois Rude
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Antoine-Louis Barye
Adam Oehlenschläger, Denmark
Esaias Tegner, Sweden
Angelica Kauffmann, Switzerland
Mary Moser, Switzerland
John Henry Fuseli, Switzerland
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Caspar David Friedrich

William Blake
Joseph Mallord William Turner
William Hogarth
Thomas Gainsborough
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Joseph Wright of Derby
George Stubbs
John Constable

John Singleton Copley
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Edward Hicks
Gilbert Stuart
John James Audubon
George Catlin

Albert Bierstadt
Thomas Cole
George Caleb Bingham
Asher B. Durand
Thomas Moran
Frederic Edwin Church
George Inness
John Frederick Kensett
Martin Jonson Heade


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