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    (LUCAÑAS) Western Art History

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    Romanticism from 1780-1850 is one of the most interesting periods in Western art history according to the author. It is undefinable and fueled by personal emotions rather than distinct styles. Artworks from this period featured a variety of subjects including landscapes, religion, revolution and beauty. Romanticism also used art to promote individual rights, liberty, and social justice as seen in Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" which commemorated the French Revolution. Additionally, Romantic paintings often featured natural disasters to depict the awe and fear of nature.

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    Romanticism from 1780-1850 is one of the most interesting periods in Western art history according to the author. It is undefinable and fueled by personal emotions rather than distinct styles. Artworks from this period featured a variety of subjects including landscapes, religion, revolution and beauty. Romanticism also used art to promote individual rights, liberty, and social justice as seen in Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" which commemorated the French Revolution. Additionally, Romantic paintings often featured natural disasters to depict the awe and fear of nature.

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    Romanticism from 1780-1850 is one of the most interesting periods in Western art history according to the author. It is undefinable and fueled by personal emotions rather than distinct styles. Artworks from this period featured a variety of subjects including landscapes, religion, revolution and beauty. Romanticism also used art to promote individual rights, liberty, and social justice as seen in Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People" which commemorated the French Revolution. Additionally, Romantic paintings often featured natural disasters to depict the awe and fear of nature.

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    Throughout the history of Western Art, what I find most interesting is the Romanticism (1780-

    1850). I find this period the most interesting for some unique reasons. First, Romanticism is
    undefinable by nature. What I mean by this is that the movements in this era are fuelled by
    personal emotions, individual uniqueness and even self-expression. Basically, artists in this era
    have no distinct style but they conveyed the same messages in their works which defined them
    as Romantic. As what the great Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich described Romanticism
    as “the artist’s feeling is his law”. Second, artworks in the Romantic period have a variety of
    subject matter including landscapes, religion, revolution and peaceful beauty. I also admire how
    they rejected the neoclassical beliefs. Their prioritization of emotion over thought, spiritualism
    over science, nature over industrialization, rusticity over wealth, and freedom over authority are
    what got me to find this era most interesting. Third reason is that Romanticism used art as
    platform to fight for freedom and equality and promote justice for every individual. Individual
    imagination and intuition have been a great help for Romanticism artists in their artworks in the
    continued search for individual rights and liberty. The painters in this era used their artworks
    depicting the current events and atrocities to shed light on injustices which is also another
    theme commonly used in this era. An example of this is the oil painting made by Eugène
    Delacroix entitled “Liberty Leading the People” which commemorates the July Revolution in
    Paris that dethroned Charles X, the restored Bourbon king.

    Liberty Leading the


    People
    Eugène Delacroix
    Oil on Canvas
    1830

    Another reason is that, Romantic paintings often featured natural disasters. If we look at the
    paintings from this era, we will see that the common theme they used was the awe and fear of
    nature and rejects the scientific arrogance of truly understanding nature.
    Overall, Romanticism greatly symbolizes the natural world and human goodness. Its philosophy
    of warm emotion over cold thought, made it the “art with a heart”. And for me, if you make an
    “art with a heart”, you will be able to convey the message more clearly in your artwork and it
    would allow the audience to know you through your artwork. I also believe that if you let your
    heart out in your artwork it would be more authentic as it reflects what you truly felt inside.

    Sources:
    Romanticism – 6 Interesting Facts. (31, January 2018). https://artlistr.com/romanticism-6-
    interesting-facts/.
    Zelazko, A. (2020, May 29). Liberty Leading the People. Encyclopedia Britannica.
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Liberty-Leading-the-People.

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