Romanticism - A look into the past

Romanticism By - Shikhar Bhardwaj

Romanticism is an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement and is considered as the most important historical events since it refers to the birth of a new set of ideas it's about a mind set in a way of feeling. Artists including the poets Goethe, Wordsworth and Keats; the composers Bruckner, Hoffmann and Bertin; and the painters Delacroix, GÊricault, Blake, Turner and Friedrich demonstrate the diversity of the movement.

It changed how millions of people look at nature children love money and work . Romanticism is best understood as a reaction to the birth of the modern world and some of its key features industrialization urbanization secularization and consumerism.

IMAGINATION INTUITION IDEALISM INSPIRATION INDIVIDUALITY

ROMANTIC ART FEATURED SWIRLING SHAPES, DRAMATIC COMPOSITIONS AND BOLD COLORS.

MOONRISE OVER THE SEA

BY CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH

THE MAJOR PAINTER OF THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN GERMANY, CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH CREATED ETHEREAL VISIONS OUT OF GERMAN LANDSCAPES, BATHING HIS VIEWS IN MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AND GLOWING COLORS. WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG BYÂ CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH

THE MOST FAMOUS LANDSCAPE PAINTER OF THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER . HIS PIONEERING AND ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES OF LIGHT HAD A PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON MANY LATER PAINTERS.

THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE

BY J. M. W. TURNER

THE SLAVE SHIP

BY J. M. W. TURNER, 1840

BEST-KNOWN FOR HIS TRANQUIL LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS OF THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE, JOHN CONSTABLE BROUGHT A NEW ENERGY AND IMPORTANCE TO LANDSCAPE PAINTING.

BY PAINTING IN OILS IN THE OPEN AIR, HE BEGAN A TREND AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPRESSIONISM.

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE MEADOWS

BY JOHN CONSTABLE

THE THIRD OF MAY 1808 BYÂ FRANCISCO GOYA

THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA 1818 BY THEODORE GERICAULT

THE HAY WAIN 1821

BY JOHN CONSTABLE

PARIS MAY 1762 THE SWISS PHILOSOPHER JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU PUBLISHES A BOOK ABOUT THE RAISING OF CHILDRENÂ Western civilization the world around Rousseau is growing ever more rational scientific and technologically based it's increasingly sensible planned sterile and bureaucratic against all of this, Rousseau emphasizes the child the original rebel the representative of everything that's pure and school and outside of adult discipline is the seat of creativity and genius for the first time in Western history glamour is directed not at the attainment of reason and adult self control but at the freedom from tradition and the natural innocence and sweetness of the child.

LAKE DISTRICT ENGLAND DECEMBER 1799 A YOUNG ENGLISH POET CALLED WILLIAM WORDSWORTH and his sister Dorothy move into dove cottage in grasmere on the edge of the Lake District. He starts writing poetry on something that's very under threat the natural world he'll write about daffodils, oak trees, clouds butterflies and rivers and his work will charm and seduce Europe within a generation.

Wordsworth's poetry is an abiding hatred for everything mechanical and industrial.

To be a romantic is to take the side of nature against industry its to prefer a daffodil to a viaduct a tree to a factory at the moment when huge swaths of Britain are being covered in the often monstrous new cities that are making Europe rich Wordsworth the quintessential romantic speaks up for the natural and a simple life.

WESTMINSTER LONDON APRIL 1847 AUGUSTUS PUGIN 14 years after some fairly incompetent officials destroy the British Parliament with fire a new building reopens designed by a rising star architect Augustus Pugin; oddly even though the building is new it's made to look old very very old medieval.

When the architect Pugin defends the building he argues that his building is Noble because it go back to his country's pre-industrial past before it grew obsessed, it begins a cult of the Middle Ages a big theme in Romanticism which identifies in the world of knights and castles a nobility, that is a thought missing from the factories and shopping arcades of the modern world.

 ROMANTICS ARE WARY OF TEACHING AND INSTRUCTION THEY THINK THINGS SHOULD BE SPONTANEOUS RATHER THAN TAUGHT THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NEED TO THINK RATIONALLY AND EXHAUSTIVELY ABOUT WHAT CAREER TO CHOOSE FOR THEMSELVES OR WHOM THEY SHOULD MARRY STRIKES THE ROMANTIC AS A MISGUIDED INTRUSION OF EDUCATION INTO THINGS WHICH SHOULD BE SPONTANEOUS AND NATURAL

ROMANTICS RESPECT FOR SPONTANEITY LEADS THEM TO LOOK WITH PARTICULAR INTEREST AT CHILDREN WHO SEEM TO THEM TO HAVE MORE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE KINDS OF TRUTHS AND SENSIBILITIES THAT ADULTS HAVE LOST

ROMANTIC PERSON IS DEVOTED TO SAYING WHAT THEY THINK OR FEEL THEY'RE ALLERGIC TO THE IDEA OF BEING FAKE OR OF HAVING SECRETS AUTHENTICITYÂ

THE ROMANTIC IS EXCITED BY HOW THINGS MIGHT IDEALLY BE AND JUDGES WHAT CURRENTLY EXISTS IN THE WORLD BY THE STANDARD OF A BETTER IMAGINED ALTERNATIVE MOST OF THE TIME THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS AROUSES THEM TO INTENSE DISAPPOINTMENT AND ANGER AS THEY CONSIDER THE INJUSTICE -IS PREVARICATIONS COMPROMISES AND TIMIDITY OF THE POWERFUL THEY'RE OFTEN FURIOUS WITH GOVERNMENTS AND SURPRISED AND OUTRAGED BY EVIDENCE OF VENAL AND SELF-INTERESTED CONDUCT IN SOCIETY FOR THEIR PART

ROMANTICS REBEL AGAINST THE ORDINARY THEY'RE KEEN ON THE EXOTIC AND THE RARE THEY'RE ANXIOUS ABOUT HIGHER THINGS BEING PUT UNDER PRESSURE TO BECOME USEFUL OR COMMERCIAL THEY WANT HEROISM EXCITEMENT AND AN END TO BOREDOM

“THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS, THERE IS A RAPTURE ON THE LONELY SHORE, THERE IS SOCIETY, WHERE NONE INTRUDES,

BY THE DEEP SEA, AND MUSIC IN ITS ROAR: I LOVE NOT MAN THE LESS, BUT NATURE MORE" Lord Byron