While I'll resist making a pun by saying that I love Romantic art, I will provide links to the paintings several artists.
Take a look at the paintings, and brush up on the basic biographical details of the painters' lives; we will need this information as we canvass the history of Romantic art.
[For the first three links, find Romanticism on Mark Harden's homepage, click, and find the painters and their paintings here.] Here are some arresting landscapes from John Constanble. Check out the work of French artist Theodore Gericault, and the German painter Caspar David Friedrich. And finally here is an assortment of paintings for your viewing and analysis.
[Photo credit here.]
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I find Romanticism art to be both interesting and beautiful. Romanticism art emphasizes on nature and the individual. After looking at the suggested painters I have decided that I like John Constable’s work the best. –Meagan Smith
The last four paintings really show the Romanticism themes of strong passion, indivdualism, and the forces of nature. Each painting depicts a different story, but all of them evoke some type of emotion from the viewer.
I respect Romanticism art and find it interesting to look at however I do not find it beautiful at all. There are many other areas of art that are more beautiful that we have studied than this one. In Romanticism art I find the lines cold and the meanings to be sarcastic as they struggle to humiliate and move away from progress and the industrial revolution. They use darkness as a symbol and light is scarce in the paintings. While I am glad to have studied this era of art I cannot enjoy the paintings and call them by any means beautiful.
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