Romantic Craft was an artistic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. It came approximately as a configuration of artistic insurgence against the orderly Enlightenment Period. Its leading characterizations are dun, chaotic subject matter and earth's ascendancy over persons.
History
Romantic Craft, or romanticism, developed in reaction to the procedure called neoclassicism. It is accordingly described as anti-classicism. It was one of the commanding European styles for generations. During their heyday in the 1800s, artists oftentimes used both romanticism and classicism simultaneously. Many of nowadays's artists have been either directly or indirectly influenced by romanticism, and the impressionist painters of the 20th century were heavily influenced by romanticism.
Characteristics
Romantic Craft is a highly emotional institute of Craft: deeply felt, exotic, classy and still passionate. It is noted as a blending of stylistic boundaries. This school of art reigned in these countries for most of the 19th century as well. The U.S. also had a strong romantic element during this time. Romantic Craft shows a preference for exotic, enigmatical, monstrous, diseased, unrevealed and yet satanic subject matter.
Philosophy
Romanticism as a philosophy was a response to artistic disillusionment with the Enlightenment. That movement's post-French Revolution values of reason and order led artists in France and England to seek beauty and passion through art. The thoughts and feelings that ruled this romantic philosophy were appreciation of the beauty of nature, exultation of emotion over reason, the senses over intellect and a focus on heroes.
The Artists
Artists who have been associated with romantic art include Caspar David Friedrich, John Constable, JMW Turner and William Blake. In the United States, the Hudson River School--producer of dramatic landscapes--led the American romantic movement. Jacques-Louis David's studio in France is largely credited with creating the philosophy and practice of romantic art.
Geography
Romanticism first gained attention in France and England during the end of the 18th century. The central meaning of romanticism, on the contrary, is to attract from ordered classicism and apply subversion to speak the originality of the artist. Romantic Craft revels in the odd, subjective, irrational, imaginative, personal, spontaneous, emotional, visionary and transcendental. It rejects establishment, low-key, concord, balance, idealization and rationality.
