Examples of American Romanticism in the following topics:
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- American Romanticism emphasized emotion, individualism, and personality over rationalism and the constraints of religion.
- Romanticism became popular in American politics, philosophy, and art.
- Transcendentalism and Romanticism appealed to Americans in a similar fashion; both privileged feeling over reason and individual freedom of expression over the restraints of tradition and custom.
- Romanticism often involved a rapturous response to nature and promised a new blossoming of American culture.
- By the 1880s, however, psychological and social realism were competing with Romanticism in the novel.
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- Matthiessen), this period encompasses (approximately) the 1820s to the dawn of the Civil War, and it has been closely identified with American romanticism and transcendentalism.
- Literary nationalists at this time were calling for a movement that would develop a unique American literary style to distinguish American literature from British literature.
- These American writers who questioned transcendentalism illustrate the underlying tension between individualism and conformity in American life.
- Walt Whitman was a highly influential American writer.
- His American epic, Leaves of Grass, celebrates the common person.
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- Emerson wrote in his speech The American Scholar: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
- In contrast, they were intimately familiar with the English Romantics, and the transcendental movement may be partially described as an American outgrowth of Romanticism.
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- Regionalism, also known as American Scene Painting, developed in reaction to the Armory Show and abstract modernism, and instead depicted American small towns and rural landscapes that conveyed a sense of nationalism and romanticism of everyday American life.
- American modernism marked the beginning of American art as distinct and autonomous from European taste by breaking artistic conventions that had been shaped after European traditions until then.
- Georgia O'Keeffe was a major figure in American Modernism who received widespread recognition for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style.
- African-American painterAaron Douglasis one of the best-known and most influential African-American modernist painters, who contributed strongly to the Harlem Renaissance and the development of an aesthetic movement that is closely related to distinct features of African-American heritage and culture.
- Precision artists considered themselves strictly American and tried to avoid European artistic influences.
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- Regionalism refers to a naturalist and realist style of painting that dominated American rural painting in the 1930s.
- After World War I, many American artists rejected the modern trends emanating from the Armory Show and European influences, choosing instead to adopt an academic realism to depict American rural scenes.
- During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland.
- Much of the work conveyed a sense of nationalism and romanticism in depictions of everyday American life.
- Grant Wood's best known work is his 1930 painting American Gothic, which is also one of the most famous paintings in American art, and one of the few images to reach the status of universally recognized cultural icon, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream.
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- In contrast, they were intimately familiar with the English romantics, and the transcendental movement may be partially described as an American outgrowth of romanticism.
- Fuller was an American journalist, critic, and women's-rights advocate closely associated with the movement; according to Emerson, "she represents an interesting hour and group in American cultivation."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
- Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled, "The American Scholar" in 1837.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803–April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century.
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- Romanticism, fueled by the French Revolution, was a reaction to the scientific rationalism and classicism of the Age of Enlightenment.
- Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
- Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism.
- Romanticism elevated the achievements of what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples would elevate society.
- Indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, "Realism" was offered as a polarized opposite to Romanticism.
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- Romanticism was a prevalent artistic movement in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries.
- While the arrival of Romanticism in French art was delayed by the hold of Neoclassicism on the academies, it became increasingly popular during the Napoleonic period.
- Compared to English Romanticism, German Romanticism developed relatively late, and, in the early years, coincided with Weimar Classicism (1772–1805).
- In contrast to the seriousness of English Romanticism, the German variety of Romanticism notably valued wit, humour, and beauty.
- Late-stage German Romanticism emphasized the tension between the daily world and the irrational and supernatural projections of creative genius.
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- Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s which rejected Romanticism, seeking instead to portray contemporary subjects and situations with truth and accuracy.
- Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century, revolting against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism of the movement.
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- Neoclassicism and Romanticism were major, interrelated artistic movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- In the visual arts, Romanticism first showed itself in landscape painting, where from as early as the 1760s British artists began to turn to wilder landscapes and storms and Gothic architecture.
- The arrival of Romanticism in French art was delayed by the strong hold of Neoclassicism on the academies.
- This work, critical of the government, is among the most important to the Romanticism movement.