Title: An Intellectual Movement: Romanticism and Its Characteristics - Art Hearty
Headings: An Intellectual Movement: Romanticism and Its Characteristics
An Intellectual Movement: Romanticism and Its Characteristics
Romanticism
Emergence of the Romantic Movement
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Features of Romanticism
Literature and Romanticism
Love of Nature
Emotions Vs. Rationality
Artist, the Creator
The Romantic Perception of the Artist
Nationalism
Exoticism
Supernatural
Gothic Romance
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Content: The emphasis on emotions also spread to the music created in that period, and can be observed in the compositions made by musicians like Weber, Beethoven, Schumann, etc. Beethoven played an important role in the transition of Western music from the Classical to the Romantic age. Artist, the Creator
As the Romantic period emphasized on human emotions, the position of the artist or the poet also gained supremacy. In the earlier times, the artist was seen as a person who imitated the external world through his art. However, this definition was mooted in the Romantic era and the poet or the painter was seen as a creator of something which reflected his individuality and emotions. The Romantic Perception of the Artist
The Romantic perception of the artist as the creator is best encapsulated by Caspar David Friedrich, who remarked that “the artist’s feeling is his law”. It was also the first time that the poems written in the first person were being accepted, as the poetic persona became one with the voice of the poet. Nationalism
The Romantics borrowed heavily from the folklore and the popular local art. During the earlier eras, literature and art were considered to belong to the high-class educated people, and the lower classes were not considered fit to enjoy them. Also, the language used in these works used to be highly lyrical, which was totally different from what was spoken by people.