Romanticism

Romanticism

 I have been given the taste of creating this blog about the art movement known as Romanticism. So I'm going to try and find out what is Romanticism and what impact has it had?


 The Romanticism movement lasted from 1770 to 1840. The Romantics as they called themselves announced there appearance in the 1770 self-consciously discarding "Enlightenment values of emotional moderation and neoclassical aesthetics."


 Romanticism was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revelation. It had a deeper understanding of the beauties of nature and more of a emotion attachment than it did an intellectual one. But saying that it was still  an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement. One of the Romantic attitudes towards nature is shown in the work done by John Constable. His landscape paintings of the British countryside were so delicately done the critics at the Salon in Paris embraced his art as "nature itself".

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds.

 This painting is one of John Constable's done in 1823. It is a painting of one of England's most famous Cathedrals situated in Salisbury.


 This painting to me is very calming. when I look at it I feel like I can feel the calmness and beauty of this Cathedral. what makes me feel this is the stillness of everything, from the cattle grazing and drinking from the still river, to the people slowly walking down the path enjoying the beauty of the landscape around them. I also love how the trees have been painted, John Constable has some how captured the elegant's of them so well that I can almost see the leaves gently swaying in the wind and hear the gentle sound of the leaves rustling. But through all this calmness is a darkened sky slowly moving over the cathedral that could show that there's going to been a storm soon.

 Caspar David Friedrich.

 After reaching Romanticism it has made me realize how important art moments are in the creation of concepts for games as they could change the concept completely for the better.

Images used in this blog have been scoured from google images.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm

http://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism
http://classroom.synonym.com/lasting-impact-romanticism-2217.html