BRITISH ROMANTICISM

British Romanticism and its impact on Art

[Institution Name]British Romanticism and its impact on Art

Introduction

Romanticism is a literary, cultural and artistic event including the first European in Britain and Germany date from the late 18th century. It's a common sensitivity and thought that has influenced art and culture throughout Europe. Romanticism gets characterized by opposition to the classical ancient pagan south. The reason, so dear to the classics, is then replaced with emotion and sensitivity. However, the word romantic word shows a view of life worthy of the novel, making man a hero whose sensitivity rules the world. “It is to reveal and emphasise the role of conventions at the heart of British society” .

However, All the national romanticism have in common is that destructive movement, rejecting the principles of rationalism of the Enlightenment and the aesthetic canons of classicism. All these are romanticism interest gothic medieval period, the taste for landscapes of the East, the evocation of the inner life, the imagination and the individual perceived as the origin of representation. “On the contrary, if it is possible to identify a number of characteristics common to romantic various European countries, each is nevertheless very specific because of specific political and social conditions in which it develops”.

Moreover, the term romantic descriptive sense is applied to a certain type of art, literature and music, mainly from the early nineteenth century, which shares a number of characteristics: individualism, open emotion, drama and affinity with nature. The poet Baudelaire defines it as intimacy, spirituality, colour, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means which allows the art. In that sense is often compared to its opposite term, classical, that usually tends to refer, in this context, tradition academic. During the eighteenth century, the trend called neoclassicism got raised, as is known, as a recovery (revival) of the classical values ??of art and architecture. This concept involves both the art of classical antiquity, especially sculpture and architecture, as artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that were inspired by those models. “However, the difference between classical and romanticism in art is not at all clear, given that some artists considered themselves' romantic' as Constable and Turner, were inspired to turn decidedly in classical models”.

Discussion

Romanticism is characteristic of this movement a great appreciation of the personal, a subjectivism and individualism all, a cult of the self and the fundamental national or Volksgeist, compared to the universality and sociability of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century , in that sense the romantic heroes are often rebellious prototypes (Don Juan , the pirate, Prometheus) and the authors romantic break any laws or cultural traditions that stifle their freedom, such as the three Aristotelian unities (action, time and place) and the style (mixing prose and verse and using Polarimetry in the theater), or revolutionizing the measure and re- rhymes more free and popular as assonance. “Similarly, a renewal of themes and settings, and, in contrast to the Enlightenment, prefers the nightlife and tragic, sordid and ruinous places (claims), revering ...