RomanticismPhotographic Styles

Romanticism

an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

PityWilliam Blake

In Romantic art, nature—with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes—offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought.

Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth

J.M.W. Turner, 1842

Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular.

The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, c. 1819

Théodore Géricault, c. 1819

Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

The Lady of ShalottJohn William Waterhouse,1888

a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature

a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect

a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities

On a Dutch ShoreJames Craig Annan

a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general, and a focus on his passions and inner struggles

a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures

St Andrews, North Street, Fishergate, c1845

Robert Adamson, David Octavius Hill

an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth

an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era

a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.

The Dark MountainJames Craig Annan

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Sir John Everett Millais,Ophelia 1851-2

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Heimat 34 © Peter Bialobrzeski (2002)

Alexandrovsk Port, Sakhalin Island © Simon Roberts (2004)