romanticism: showing yourself

 Romanticism: showing yourself

Romanticism started from the 1800 and finished in the 1890, it began after the French revolution.in this era; their paintings were showing liberty and the way they felt by their art. Neo-classicism was crushed by this different art made of emotion and their imagination.  This period of time was carried out by literature and philosophers. They also showed a lot of nature in their paintings, this means that nature shows freedom and liberty. In all of the romanticism in different countries they show the same characteristics by showing their expressions. In the paintings of romanticism they used to show tragedies, punishment, and disaster these were common in the paintings. The painters used their study of nature and reflected in their paintings. They painted with a lot of nature because it was a mirror of their soul.  The structure of their painting: used a lot of light and shade, their  boundaries between illusion and reality, figures usually painted with landscapes behind them this is to show and give the viewer a different view of how to see the paintings.

Some artists of romanticism:

Caspar David Fredrich:

a quote from Caspar David fredrich “the task of a painter isn’t to show depiction of air, water, rocks and trees but his soul and his emotion must be shown”.

 He was inspired by the historical scenes and legends which were set in the medieval. He used to show the nature as wild.

Chalk cliffs on Rugen:

 There is a lot of unused space to show emotion.  The posture of the two men is to show: one is terrified to the grass and the other one is enjoying the landscape. There is a contrast between fear and the sunrise which is reflecting in the water, in the way I understand it shows the way of a new life and freedom which is equivalent through the sun. The rocks restrict the painting because it is using a lot of space which can be used in a more significant way in my opinion.

Man and women contemplating the moon:  

this shows two city dwellers watching the moon between day and night. In this painting the space in the middle shows that it is infinite because it shows perspective. This shows that it is in the middle ages because of the clothes they wear.

Bibliography: Romanticism | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Romanticism | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm. [Accessed 03 March 2013].

konemann (1995). the story of painting from the renaissance to the present . german: detlev schaper. 6-128.