What is Romanticism?

The Age of Romanticism (1800-1900ish)

https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-21-spring-2011/romanticism-gets-real

Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. 

Romanticism began as a late eighteenth-century philosophy that embraced imagination, emotion, and the unknown. Affecting history, literature, religion, art, utopian and dream like state and home life, Romanticism offered an escape from the stresses of the early Industrial Revolution.

The Romantics use the concept of slavery to support economic reform. They attempt, through their depictions of slaves, to convey the concept of alterity which could strengthen the individual’s self-awareness as well as any ethical awareness to the person or to someone else.

What are the 5 characteristics of Romanticism?

What are the 5 characteristics of American romanticism? Romanticism is marked by a focus on individualism, an emphasis on nature, emotion over reason, freedom of form, and an exploration of the Gothic and unknown.

This type of photography can be found in films and art today, such as: Beauty and the beast. Belle is full of innocence because she is young and loving, she sees nothing wrong in life when in reality there is problems starting with the beast.

Photography is typically representational while painting has can be entirely abstract and go anywhere as you can paint anything with any colours and have so many possibilities. Paintings aren’t constrained to portray what things actually look like however they can interpret scenes, emotions, or feelings as they desire, whereas a photo is the complete opposite you get he whole moment captured in a photograph which is why photography is more more popular in modern times because it allows for capturing moments quickly and accurately, making it a preferred method for documenting events, landscapes, and people as well as emotions.

Romanticism spread throughout Europe in the 19th century and developed as an artistic, literary and intellectual movement . Enlightenment, a European movement of the 18th century in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were a world view that gained popularity in the West.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines. Its start and end are widely debated by scholars, but the period generally spanned from about 1760 to 1840.

William blake

 Blake believed in spiritual and political freedom and often wrote about these themes in his works. He worked on creating beautiful images and revolving this around freedom and expression.

Blake was born in Soho, London, in 1757, the son of a hosier. From an early age he saw religious visions. His artistic talents led his father to send him to Henry Pars’ drawing school at the age of 10, where he learnt to copy from prints and plaster casts, and in 1772 he was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire.

Here is some of his work.

These images show that Blake wanted to emphasize the importance of nature and the imagination as expressions of a deeper reality. His style and ideas are transcendental in that they go beyond the ordinary way of perceiving and describing reality, suggesting that there is a deeper and richer realm which is hinted at by nature and the imagination, such as the first photo above as it appears to be a women, however we are not sure. Its mainly blue, yellow and green colours. Although we aren’t too sure what’s going on there is sense of romanticism in this photo.

The Sublime

In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. Basically referring to photographs’ of beauty and loath.

What is the sublime in British romanticism?

The sublime is closely linked with the English Romanticism – artists and writers. In particular those works of painting or poetry that celebrate the majesty and overwhelming power of the natural world.

Its an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling.

Here are some examples..

These photos are aesthetically pleasing, calming and are generally made for you to hang up in your house as its a nice photo, nice vie and is relaxing. Most people would have something like their in their house as its the perfect photograph to be hung in and in view for your family and friends. However you could also say that they are mysterious and have a deeper meaning than you think which could make you wonder about the origin of the photo and why it was taken.

These photos romanticism and sublime have a depth that they go into and revel a lot on each other. The scale of sublime is clearly a large format camera and pay close attention to detail as that’s clearly what the artist is trying to achieve. The light and colours of both styles of photos are dark and mysterious, not revealing a lot about itself and making you question and wonder. the texture of both photos look quiet rough and not so smooth as some were taken in the 18th century. Lastly the sublime photos have loads of shadows and corners to go into , not very bright whereas the first photo on romanticism has more rough colours although there not bright colours they are still quiet dull but have more yellow, green and blue shades in the photos.

These are the aspects of photos you should look our for sublime and romanticism images in photography. These aspects’ are important because they highlight the important bits in a photograph and show you the best/most interesting bits.

John constable

Born in East Bergholt in Suffolk, John Constable (1776 – 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.

Constable was one of the first artists of the Romantic movement to create landscape paintings drawn directly from nature. He inspired artists to work directly from everyday life and use nature as the main subject of their painting as he couldn’t use a camera he had to draw/paint the ideas that he thought or seen.