Romantic > Painting > Intro
Romanticism was an important movement in the history of painting,
and was ultimately to lead to the Impressionism of the later nineteenth
century and the Abstraction of the twentieth. Sublime landscapes
with tiny, overwhelmed human figures gave way to paintings, such
as many of Turner’s, in which the sea and sky become little
more than abstract fields of color. Another strain of Romantic painting
was the adaptation of the Neoclassical history painting to emphasize
not human heroism but the waste and destruction of war. Finally,
an interest in “exotic” places or people as subjects
for painting was another characteristic of Romanticism.
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