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9 lut 2022 · Artists were free to be creative, harnessing inspiration from their dreams and their consciousness to illustrate fantastic figures or troubled landscapes. Here is our selection of the 12 most famous Romanticism paintings. The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli.
Biographies and analysis of the work of the famous American Romanticism artists. We are adding more artists every week, so stay tuned as the most important artists in the history of art are given proper coverage.
5 dni temu · Romanticism is the attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the emotional, and the visionary.
American Romanticism found its primary expression in the landscape painting of the Hudson River School, between 1825-1875. While the movement began with Thomas Doughty, whose work emphasized a kind of quietism in nature, the most famous member of the group was Thomas Cole , whose landscapes convey a sense of awe at the vastness of nature.
Romanticism’s philosophy encompasses two distinct concepts of natural beauty: sublimity and picturesqueness. Sublimity refers to the landscape’s ability to overwhelm the body with emotion by reflecting nature’s violence and terror, to “excite a vision of the Divine Creation.”
A dream of Italy: Black artists and travel in the nineteenth century. Created as the Civil War was coming to an end but at a time when all Americans were not yet equal citizens, this painting invokes an idealized landscape, with references to both past and present.
This gallery will showcase different works of art that represent the time period of American Romanticism. The artworks vary from paintings of nature, still paintings, and self portraits. The...
