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Romantic paintings
Romanticism was an artistic style popular in the early 19th century. It emphasized the need for art to express emotion, irrational feelings, and imagination.
"Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling." Charles Baudelaire
Love in the French Theather
La Leçon d'Amour
Peaceful Love
La Gamme d'Amour
The Pleasures of Love
Watteau, The Bird Nester.
The four Fragonard Paintings for Madame Du Barry representing The Progress of Love.
The Pursuit
The Meeting
Love Letters
The Lover Crowned
Fragonard, The Love Vow.
Romantic ideals and explorations of emotional states, were shared by painters of the Romanticism like: Eugene Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, William Turner and John Constable. Romanticism flourished in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century.
Death of Sardanapalus by Delacroix.
Romantic artists were fascinated by the nature, the genius, their passions and inner struggles, their moods, mental potentials, the heroes. [1]
See also
External links
- Romanticism
- Romanticism and the Arts
- American Romanticism Ann Woodlief's Introduction.
- Romanticism
- Romanticism
- Top 10: Romantic Art Museums
