In the European and American movement, Romanticism art, extended from about 1800 to 1850. The Romantic Movement first took root in Germany and then England in the 1780s. With the decline of Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment, and the American and French Revolutions, the movement shook the rest of Europe and lighted across the seas in the second wave to America. The ideals and tenets were the exact opposite of Neoclassicism, which emphasized order, logic, emotional restraint, balance, science, and reason. However, as the industrial revolution gained its footing in England, and cities began to grow, the ideals were reevaluated and emotions, individuality, and nature overshadowed Neoclassicism.
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The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behavior. Serious illness in 1792 left Goya permanently deaf. Isolated from others by his deafness, he became increasingly occupied with the fantasies and inventions of his imagination and with critical and satirical observations of mankind. Across much of Latin America from the 1960s to the 1980s the generals' exaggerated fears led them to devour thousands of their nations' children. In Argentina under the military regime, an estimated 30,000 people were "disappeared". For the bold technique of his paintings, the haunting satire of his etchings and his belief that the artist's vision is more important than tradition, Goya is often called "the first of the moderns. Whether it is a reflection of Goya's own mental state, or an allegory on the situation in a country that was consuming its own children in bloody wars and revolutions, or a statement on the human condition generally, may remain open. Maybe the most terrible of Goya's paintings, "Saturn Devouring One of His Sons" was done during his last and dark years. The expressed violence illustrates the tortured mind of the painter, typical of his whole …show more content…
That is, they became the dominant mode of expression. The Romantics yearned to reclaim human freedom. Habits, values, rules and standards imposed by a civilization grounded in reason and reason only had to be abandoned. The Romantics saw diversity and uniqueness. That is, those traits which set one man apart from another, and traits which set one nation apart from another. Discover and express yourself, a Romantic artist would cry, play your own music, write your own drama, paint your own personal vision, live, love and suffer in your own way. They knew they were rebels and dared to march to the tune of a different drummer, which is their own. The Romantics were passionate about their subjectivism, about their tendency toward introspection. The Romantic era can be considered as indicative of an age of crisis. The French Revolution entered its radical phase in August 1792, which started the fear of political disaster that spread like wide fire. King killing, Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, and the Napoleonic armies all signaled chaos, which would dominate European political and cultural life for the next quarter of a