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Romanticism has been influencing
literature till today; Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight novels
are brighter examples of the movement, incorporating most of the characteristics of classical
Romanticism in spite of being published a century and half after the end of the active life of
the movement.
4. VISUAL ARTS
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In the 1760s and 1770s a number of British artists at home and in Rome, began to paint on
those subjects that were very unique with strict decorum and having mythological, classical
and historical subject matter of conventional figurative art, which includes James Barry,
Henry Fuseli, John Hamilton Mortimer, and John Flaxman, These artists’ were in favour of
themes that were queer, miserable or extravagantly heroic and
they described their images
with tensely linear drawing and bold contrasts of light and shade. William Blake, the other
principal early Romantic poet as well as painter in England, generated his own powerful and
special visionary images.
In the next generation the great differentiation of English Romantic skeletal painting
emerged in the works of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. These artists aimed on
impermanent and dramatic effects of light, atmosphere, and
colour to exhibit a dynamic
natural world capable of evoking awe and grandeur.
In France the chief early Romantic painters were Baron Antoine Gros, who painted the
dramatic representation of contemporary incidents of Napoleonic Wars and Théodore
Géricault, whose depiction of individual heroism and suffering in The Raft of the Medusa
and in his portraits of the insane truly inaugurated the movement around 1820. The greatest
French Romantic painter was Eugène Delacroix, who is considered to be outstanding for his
free and expressive brushwork, his rich
and pleasurable use of colour, his dynamic
compositions, and his unnaturalized and unique subject matter, ranging from North African
Arab life to revolutionary politics at home, Paul Delaroche, Théodore Chassériau, and
occasionally, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres represented the last, more academic phase of
Romantic painting in France. Germany Romantic painting took on symbolic and
metaphorical overtones as in the works of Philipp Otto Runge. Caspar David Friedrich, the
greatest
German Romantic artist, painted supernaturally silent and stark sceneries that can
lead the beholder a sense of puzzle and religious astonishment.
Romanticism conveyed itself in architecture are basically through imitating older
architectural styles and through eccentric buildings are known as “follies.” Medieval Gothic
architecture was fascinated to the Romantic imagination in England and Germany and this
renewed interest has led to the Gothic Revival.
Musical Romanticism was marked by the emphasis on originality and personal emotional
expression
of an individual; and freedom and experimentation of form. Ludwig van
Beethoven and Franz Schubert bridged the Classical and Romantic periods since their formal
musical techniques were basically Classical. Their music had intensely personal feeling and
their use of programmatic elements provided an important model for 19th century Romantic
composers.
The possibilities for a considerable expressiveness in music were engraved both by the
expansion and perfection of the instrumental repertoire and by the creation of new musical
forms, such as the lied, prelude, intermezzo, capriccio, nocturne, and mazurka. The
Romantic spirit was often found as an inspiration in poetic texts, legends, and folk tales and
the linking of words and music either programmatically or through such forms as the
concert
overture and incidental music is another distinguishing feature of Romantic music. The
principal composers of the first phase of Romanticism were Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt
Frédéric Chopin, and Felix Mendelssohn. These composers expanded the harmonic
vocabulary to exploit the full range of the chromatic scale, pushed orchestral instruments to