Freedom of Expression

I believe romanticism is a declaration of people freedom. The feeling to express your desires not only political freedom, but also in the way you worship, speech, taste, action, and the right for individuals to own property. Man is born free, but is in chains every where. The belief in human progress and the perfectibility in philosophies help in making knowledge more accessible as man began to learn to read. Knowledge greatly influenced the world in the fields of historical, scientific and technical as well as religious projects.
It is no coincidence that some of the major revolutions of the centuries coincided at the same time. Expanding knowledge and fighting for more freedoms grew with the growth of cities and growth of an urban working class and the demands for more raw materials. The romantic movement laid the foundation to exploration in the realm of the exotic and the erotic, artist often turned to fictional narratives for the subjects of their paintings. The artist Gros was aware of the benefits that could be obtained for artists that were preferred by those in power. The Romantic imagination stretched its perceptions of the middle ages into all the worlds of fantasy, superstition, dark mystery and miracles that including the ghoulish, infernal nightmarish, sadistic imagery that came for the chamber of horrors. Romantic artists increasingly incorporated dramatic action, while exploring the exotic fictional fantasy. Romanticism had wide appeal because of the emphases placed on freedom of feeling. The appeal extended well beyond the realm of the visual arts and into freedom of expression in music, literature and poetry. Romanticism dominated the late 18th and early 19th centuries.