Romanticism

Romanticism

1. was a reaction against the order and restraint of classicism and neoclassicism

   • classicism - style in art and literature
     • neoclassicism - the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music.
   • the attitude that characterised the many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
   • the reaction to the Industrial Revolution

2. the rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality

3. the Romantic Era

4. Visual Art - first showed itself in landscape painting, where from as early as the 1760s British artists began to turn to wilder landscapes and storms, and Gothic architecture

   • Example: Caspar David Friedrich and J. M. W. Turner
   • Musical Romanticism - an era of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century E.G. Hector Berlioz