Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
1890s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1990s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Charcoal
Early 1900s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink, Pen
1850s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Late 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil
Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Late 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Charcoal
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
Early 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Paper
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache, Pencil
Late 19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Illustration Board, Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Chalk
1840s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Charcoal
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
India Ink
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1860s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Monotype
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1820s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1830s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor, Board
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel
2010s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
19th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper