Romanticism

In the early nineteenth century, Romanticism flourished. The style emphasized the bold, dramatic and emotional. Romanticists rejected the cool logic of the establishment classicists, rendering subjects in their natural state, filled with raw action, often set in the past. While classicism also emphasized the past, Romantics were emotionally raw, usually despondent, and melodramatically tragic. Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Henry Fuseli, William Blake, John Constable, Caspar David Friedrich and Francisco Goya all painted in the Romantic style.