Romanticism is movement away from classical subjects and content to those defying reason. Rather than explaining to the viewer, the works provide an opening for the unexplained - urging the viewer to contemplate questions that are unanswerable. There is a greater focus on emotions and spiritual contemplations than on the realities of life. It seems to me that the people of the time had been brought to a precipice by the Renaissance – they were unprepared for the knowledge that was imparted to them and unprepared for the responsibility of that knowledge. In order to ‘deal’ with this, they sought out the unexplainable. They sought to break the boundaries that society had impressed upon them and embrace the imagined state of freedom – not realizing that freedom itself has boundaries and responsibilities.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Romanticism
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