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6 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.
Romanticism in England. With the exception of William Blake, who practiced a more visionary art, the English Romantic painters favored landscape. Their depictions, however, were not as dramatic and sublime as their German counterparts, but were more naturalistic.
In British art, Romanticism was embraced in new responses to nature in the art of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Visionary artist William Blake examined man’s place in the cosmos and his relationship to God as well as exploring new ways of looking at human history.
28 kwi 2021 · English Romantic painters were some of the most prominent landscape artists within the movement. Artists like John Constable and J. M. W. Wiliam Turner encapsulate the Romantic fascination with the natural world, and they are able to capture the power and unpredictability of its beauty.
Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century.
The leading English artist in the style was John Martin, whose tiny figures were dwarfed by enormous earthquakes and storms, and worked his way through the biblical disasters, and those to come in the final days.
Biographies and analysis of the work of the famous British 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.
