Europe, 1800–1850

Romanticism

Painting as weather, weather as feeling. Romantic artists treated landscape as a psychological state and rendered history as sensation. Here is the storm, the solitary figure, the barricade.

3 walls · 6 pieces

The Fighting Téméraire

J. M. W. Turner · 1838

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1818

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix