Romanticism

Often capital the theory, practice, and style of the romantic art ,music, and literature of the late 18th century and the early 198th centuries, usually opposed to classicism. Also is romantic attitudes, ideals or qualities. Also, the movement of art and literature. ​

What was Romanticism a reaction against?

Romanticism grew due to the reaction to the effects of the social transformation caused by the Revolution. It was against the industrial revolution because  the movement idealized nature, emotion, and individualism, but the ideas clashed with the rapid changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution.

Enlightenment

It started in 1685 and ended in 1815. Enlightenment, is a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.

 How did the Industrial Revolution have an impact on Romanticism?​

The Industrial Revolution had an impact on the Romantic movement, shaping its themes, concerns, and artistic expressions. The loss of connection with nature and the critique of industrial capitalism all influenced the works of Romantic poets and artists.

John Constable 

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. He was born in Suffolk, he is known for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as “Constable Country” – which he invested with an intensity of devotion. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”.​

Constable’s most famous painting includes The Hay Wain (1821). Even though his paintings are now amongst the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts (RAA) at the age of 52. His work was accessible in France, where he sold more than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.​

Notes

Classical landscapes were made to be special and legendary due to arcadia in Greece, this is due to ancient Greek.

Loneliest subjects, meaning it wasn’t seen as a genre. Landscape painted on a large canvas unlike other paintings. The Hay wain has farmers, clouds, features of nature. The rough texture will capture nature so you could feel it. Landscapes are meant to be classical. legendary not mundane. The Hay Wain used to be called Noon. In the Hay-Wain you don’t see the workers faces.

The Machines were taken taking jobs away in the countryside.

Constable love these paintings. Constable has created a fiction.

Romanticism Examples

What Is The Sublime?

A theory which was developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, where he defined sublime art as ‘art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation‘. John Martin. The Great Day of His Wrath (1851–3) Tate. In the “sublime”,  in the sublime ‘vast and big horizons, towering mountains, and plunging chasm‘.

Sublime Examples

Edmund Burke

A famous quote he said was ‘The truly sublime is always easy. and always natural’.

This quote suggests that the sublime is dangerous and its full of terror and it easy to be surrounded by nature. Its also where a fear is in place of a sense of well-being and security.

 How Are Sublime Landscapes Depicted?

Edmund Burke said that the sublime from the beautiful for its capacity to evoke intense emotions and inspire awe through experiences of nature’s vastness. it also includes  vast horizons, towering mountains, and plunging chasms.

J.M.W Turner

J.M.W Turner was an important figure for the romantic movement, which was from the 18th to 19th century. His work was important during these times . He achieved these goals by painting intense contrasts of extreme light and dull clouds with energetic brushstrokes. He created man oil paintings and watercolours which illustrating the compelling forces which also supplied as settings for historical and modern dramas. He caught events such as the slow creep of glaciers in the Alps, the immediate fall of an avalanche and the swell of the ocean. Human transition is presented as well, with images of steamships and other suggestions of industry building the predominant machine age.