Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

What are we to make of Romanticism? More important, what has Romanticism made of us? The West’s major historical eras should not really be labeled B.C. and A.D., but B.R. and A.R.: Before Romanticism ...

Roaming Europe, we admire stately Neoclassical buildings and dramatic Romantic paintings. Around 1800, Europe was in transition, reflected in two art styles. First, we visit Europe’s great cities with ...

NEW HAVEN — Is art inherently romantic? Wassily Kandinsky thought so. "It is no part of my program to paint with tears," wrote the great Russian painter, "and I really don't care for sweets, but ...

PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it’s no surprise that the art from that time has a certain ...

A “museum of life,” José Ortega y Gasset called it. About that “indomitable fluid that refuses to be stopped, captured, saved,” but fortunately, he pointed out, “leaves in things the traces of its ...