Romanticisim In Art

Here's a brief overview of the research in terms of the effect of romanticism in art.....

It's clear to suggest that Romanticisim within the art world acted as though I passage for artists to interpret and question the sense of portraying one's self, through the use of their artwork was the basis of an auto-biography within that time period.
At the same time, with the impact of 'The Enlightenment' effecting society, with it's certanties question, logical order taking it's toll in the rational form of philosophy, as a result, sparking a revolt against this 'ideal' and replacing it with the magnitude of the imagination, the possibilities of intuition, the importance of the emotions, and the uniqueness of the individual.

That said, it appears that the movement remained dominant over the western culture, it remained in it's art form more significant in France, as opposed to England and German, who took the regins on both Literiture and Music.
Consisting of emotion in terms of expressivness, in particular manipulating the tone of mood with the reviving use of clashing colour, the prominence of the brushstroke and impasto the artist's free handling of paint opposses against other artistic movements, for instance 'Neo-Classcisim'.
However it did inherited some aspects of this particular movement, essentially in the serious tone of art, juxtaposing against frivlous or more decorative art pieces, that the two movements indeed rather then a seperate entities, they rather co-exists, one key factor of indentifying them, is recognising that the 'Romantic' artists places more emphasis into the soul, abandoning 'logical discourse' found within Neo-classcisism, and leading inward.


These thoughts and feelingly represented in the ideals of Romantics can be vivdly recognised in artists involved in the movement......

Artists....

Casper David Freidrich
Fransisco Goya
J.M.W Turner
Albert Bierstadt
Frederic Edwin Church
Thomas Cole
Eugiene Delacroix

Thomas Cole....

Cole was primarily a painter of landscape, and worked a great deal in america, as well as using american surroundings in a few of his pieces, he later went on to found the Hudson River School, named after the Hudson River region of New York State, dubbed the fuirst 'American' style of painting.

It's safe to say that Cole felt nature was a force to be reckoned with (as did many artists that fell in to the same catogory), and found it awe inspiring at the same time, with works such as the series The Voyage of Life' interpretating it as the hand of God, and representation of our own life, and therefore respecting it on a high level, so much so, he devoted series of work in portraying 'Anti-Enlightenment' pieces, for example his 'Empire' series....(The Course of Empire - The Savage State; The Course of Empire - The Arcadian or Pastoral State; The Course of Empire - The Consummation; The Course of Empire - Destruction; and The Course of Empire - Desolation) which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city....and shows us that although men can build and destroy lanscape with his 'Creations' nature will irrevocably take it back, and overcome man......a romantic ideal in itself....

This said, his work higly inspirational to other artists who shared a simmilar concept of the world at the time, with works from....

Frederic Edwin Church
I'll leave this up to you to slice and dice into the presentation, but i'll attempt to come in before to go over the slideshow etc...im sorry I cant come in tommorow, but 95% of this is in my own words....so don't worry about changing it, all you have to do is maybe grab a few pictures to show and compare, but we'll quickly go over that before hand....