Contempary Artists

Julian Beever

More On Romanticism

Renaissance of Romanticism During the early stages of development of the Consciousness Scales, our theoretical considerations included a hypothesis that the contemporary revival of romanticism parallels the classical period of European romanticism. Contemporary philosophers and social scientists (e.g., Cotgrove, Horton, Finnegan, Greisman) have repeatedly suggested this hypothesis. Classical European romanticism as expressed in literature, music, paintings and sculptures was more than a style, a ‘manifestation of feeling,’ to use Charles Baudelaire’s expression. Starting in the 1750s, it gained wide influence at the turn of the century and lasted until about the 1850s. The romantic period is often divided into the early and the late periods, the great divide between them being the Napoleonic wars. Edmund Burke's Philosophical Inquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) was one of the early expressions of the romantic tenets expanded, among others, in the writings of Macpherson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron and Goethe.

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Romanticism

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during theIndustrial Revolution.^[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature,^[2] and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.

The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation,horror and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom to something noble, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage.

Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval, in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.

Our modern sense of a romantic character may be expressed in Byronic ideals of a gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his inspiration rather than the mores of contemporary society.

Although the movement is rooted in German Pietism, which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the background from which Romanticism emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities; indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite to Romanticism. Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, which would elevate society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas.

Impression

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, impression, (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis to coin the term in a satiric review published in Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition , emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the Visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as impressionist and impressionist literature .

Impressionism also describes art created in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period

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Introduction

Welcome to my introduction this is my blog for my college corse at Westminster kingsway, for the next term i will be constantly updating this with different information about my course, information about the certain areas of the course. If you did not already know i am doing a national b Tec in digital designs with media pathways incorporated. i will be uploading pictures of surrealism, photographs, cartoons, and will be studying about a range of different artists.
I will also be uploading my pictures and digitally altered images so you will be able to see my improvement and progression as i go on and upload my work as i progress.
I am also using this blog system to see what other people on my corse are doing and there standard of work!