Artesplorazioni: romanticismo

Today I will talk about romance and this is a bit of a video with which I also want to give a different cut to the artesplorazioni. You will not feel alone my voice but I will try to win a bit 'of shyness and to speak to you directly in front of the camera. Romance then let's start with romance current of thought that always has me very very fascinated.

It gave rise to extraordinary works both in painting that in literature in poetry also in the music. And so today I'll talk about it for you which off to the questions! Romanticism is so varied in its manifestations that it is impossible give a single definition, but surely the dominant element was trust towards individual experience.

Romanticism is a new vision of the world, a mental attitude. It is expressed in various artistic forms such as the literature, painting, sculpture, music, poetry and in a sense also in architecture. It is not easy to pigeonhole this movement like even the artists who were part of it, who crossed it, in all its cultural fields.

Almost by definition, the main romantic artists are very different from each other. Blake and Turner in England, Delacroix and Gericault in France, Friedrich and Runge in Germany. Almost all the composers of the nineteenth century, from Beethoven to Strauss to Verdi, are called romantics.

In literature the phenomenon is restricted to some writers active in the two or three decades at the turn of seven and eight hundred. This kind of movement that in reality was not really such, was born at the end of the eighteenth century and became extinct mid-nineteenth century. But in a broader sense we can say that the spirit romantic survived longer.

From time to time he represented a revolt against conservatism, against moderation and falseness. He reincarnated in artists who gave great space to imagination in artistic expression. Romanticism never aimed to found a unitary and normative style, but yes diffused in the various countries by assuming different languages, ranging from the realization of works of intimate recollection, to the representation of spectacular events full of pathos!

Romantic ideas in Germany they concentrated on bringing out the harmonious link between man and nature. In England, around 1770, a tendency towards the fantastic appeared. But the Romanticism spread also in France, in Italy, in the countries of northern Europe and even in the United States where he showed himself in landscape painting, the American one, seen as the Earthly Paradise.

Romanticism opposed the rationalism of enlightenment and the style composed of neoclassicism. In general we can say that the romanticism is a bit the opposite pole of classicism. The romantics explored the values ​​of intuition and instinct.

To the eloquence of neoclassical art they oppose a more private kind of expression.