Romanticism

Romanticism 

One of our units in college is art history in which we look and analyse different art movement. Our first would be Romanticism.

Romanticism started in the 18th century but gained momentum and an artistic movement in France and Britain in early decades of the 19th century. Initially associated with literature and music, While in art one of the defining feature of Romanticism is the emphasis on emotion with imaginative differences to reality which tried to rationalised the so-called Enlightenment and the transformation of everyday life brought about by the Industrial Revolution. 

As a movement with a simple premise, be a romantic look on reality, Romanticism is accuracy complex, for example a quote from Charles Baudelaire who wrote about French Romanticism in the middle of the nineteenth century "romanticism lies neither in the subjects that an artist chooses nor in his exact copying of truth, but in the way he feels...." as a quote i rather liked a for a definition of the Romanticism movement.

Jacques-Louis David, Marat Assassinated, 1793

I choose this oil painting as it a contradiction to what you might expect from Romanticism as it not relay romantic bright and cheerful but is the re-imagining for the death of Marat though the eyes of Jacques-Louis David who choose to make the death more dark and dramatic as such is the reason i like it.