Romanticism
The Romantic Era is my favorite segment of Art History. It's my personal philosophy that all great art elicits some sort of emotion out of the viewer or can communicate the emotion to the viewer and a lot of romantic artists seem to agree. One of the biggest hallmarks of the Romantic Era was the heavy use of emotions and emotional subjects as a reaction to the Neoclassicism style that came before it. Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog , 1818 Alexandre Cabanel, Fallen Angel , 1847 Two great examples of the Romantic style are Caspar Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog from Germany, and Alexandre Cabanel's Fallen Angel from France. I chose these pieces to illustrate the emotional aspects of the Romantic style because they both portray emotions in a beautiful way, but as nearly polar opposites of each other. Friedrich's work is deeply foreboding, the dense fog underneath the wanderer gives the rocky landscape an unearthly feeling, a l