ROMANTICISM

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ROMANTICISM

• A Movement
• An Aesthetic Style
• An Attitude or Spirit

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As a Movement

• Revolt against convention
• Revolt against authority
• Search for freedom in personal, political, and
  artistic life
• Reacted against Enlightenment order
• Reacted against industrialism

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The Witches Sabbathby Francisco Goya
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The Witches' Sabbath was
one of the series of the fourteen Black
Paintings, made by Goya on the walls of the
so-called "The Deaf Man's Villa", between 1820
and 1824. It was located on the longest wall of
the dining room of the ground floor together with
Leocadia, Two Old Men, Saturn, Judith and
Holofernes and St. Isidore's Day.
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3rd of May by Francisco Goya
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Characteristics of Style

• Love of nature (sublime)
• Rejection of organized religion (God is in
  nature)
• Free expression of imagination
• Liberation of the emotions
• Spontaneous outpouring of feeling
• Taste for the exotic, ecstatic, and fantastic
• Glorification of the individual (intuition and
  senses)

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• Sentimentality excess of feeling
• Nostalgia for the past
• Melancholylots of suicides
• Longing (shown in their art)
• Nationalisticdie for what you believe
• Alienated from society
• Despair

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Turners Rain, Steam and Speed

• The world is too much with us late and soon
• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
• Little we see in nature that is ours
• We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
• This sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
• The winds that will be howling at all hours,And
  are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For
  this, for everything, we are out of tune
• It moves us not.Great God! Id rather be a pagan
  suckled in a creed outworn
• So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
• Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn
• Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea or
  hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

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Heroes

• Pursued fiercely individualistic paths to
  creativity
• Alienated from society
• Self indulgence (also called subjectivity)
• Frustration and despair
• Adventures into danger
• Infatuation with the sublime

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Taste for the exotic, the ecstatic, and the
fantastic Glorified the individual self by
intuition Reliance upon the senses Emotions
were as important as reason Valued
sentimentality, nostalgia, melancholy, and
longing