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=Romantic Art =

Romanticism focused a lot on individualism, subjectivity, irrationality, imagination, emotions and nature. Art is just one of the ways this is expressed. Romantic artists were inspired by nature, their passions and personal problems, their moods, their want for knowledge, and their well-known heroes. During the Romantic Period, people saw heroes as a "big deal". This is known as Heroism. Heroism didn't just involve myths and imaginary people, many people believed that the common man could be heroes. Artists painted this idea during the Romantic Age. When painting nature, the artists usually focus on the beauty of it. = = =Romantic Art and //Frankenstein//=

As I mentioned before, artists of the Romantic period focused their talents much on nature. Many artists have spent their time and talent illustrating the beautiful and "not-so beautiful" scenery of //Frankenstein//. The story has many different settings, such as, mountains, open fields, forests, and even busy streets of universities or the calm streets of Geneva. In illustrating these settings, the painter is always careful on showing explicit detail of the beauty of it all. Within the story, Mary Shelley described nature carefully and noticeably. Romantics always found nature to be one of the most important things to ever live by. To them, nature was to always be left alone, and to ruin nature would cause a type of serious consequence. In Romantic paintings, it is common to see things like flowers and trees overgrown and untouched, that is a result of their beliefs to leave nature alone. = = = Romantic Artists = == = =

There are many known artists of the Romantic Era. Each artist has their own known way of expressing themselves. Between paintbrush strokes and the colors used by the artist, a lot of emotion is and can be expressed. Some Romantic Artists are George Stubbs, William Blake, John Margin, John Constable, JMW Turner, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. These artists found ways to show what they were thinking, how they feel, and how they understand things to be. Some paintings are known for their emphasis of nature, some on religions, conflicts, and some more are based on well-known myths and stories. Though there are many artists, we are going to focus on backgrounds of Eugène Delacroix and JMW Turner.

= **Eugène Delacroix** =



Eugène Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798 and he died on August 13, 1863. Growing up, he lived an unfortunate life. His parents died, leaving him as an orphan at the age of 16. He lived his adult life as a French Romantic Artist illustrating some of the different works of William Shakespeare, Walter Scott (Scottish), and Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (German). He became well-known as a Romantic Artist and even decorated the King's Chamber in the Palais Bourbon.  Some of his works include:

The theme of the painting is very clear which is related to destruction and death that is the result of the war or the revolution. It seems that the painting reflects the realism related to war. Delacroix is a French painter who might have given the picture of French revolution and the destruction that was invited by the revolution. We can also say that the painting reflects the universal reality that war invites evil in the human world.

‘Orphan Girl at the Cemetery’ was painted in 1824. The painting shows a young girl visiting a cemetery, most likely located in the French countryside. Her eyes are filled with tears and are directed upward, toward the sky. Her expression conveys not only sadness, but also pain emotionally.

= JMW Turner = = = = =

= = JMW was an English Romantic Artist who was born on April 23, 1775, and he died on December 19, 1851. Aside from being an Artist, he was a landscape painter, water-colorist and print maker. Turner wasn't well known during his days of painting, but he is now known as the artist who brought attention to landscape paintings in history. Turner is one of the best at creating British watercolor landscape paintings. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work was known as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a group of Paris-based artists whose works brought them to a type of fame in the 1870s and 1880s. Some of his works include: This painting shows how one of the last ships which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship, HMS //Temeraire//, being towed towards its final sail in east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap to build other ships, such as war ships or trading ships.

In this painting, the Carthaginian Empire is falling apart because of many of the problems we face today, the problems all the world suffers from relying on knowledge rather than the word of the Lord. But this painting is brilliant, inescapably light-filled and reminds us that even in the darkest days in the world, the Word of God continues to shine, and the darkness cannot overcome it.

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