comparison between classicism and romanticism

1. Difference between Classicism and Romanticism

2. Classicism
Classicism is art that is associated with
antiquity, mainly Roman and Greek art and
culture, and it includes such characteristics
as symmetry, decorum, pellucidity, harmony
and idealism. Many of the characteristics of
the Baroque did, however, begin to decline in
favour of a fresh perspective on music and
all arts.

3. ❖The following of ancient Greek or Roman
principles and style in art and literature,
generally associated with harmony,
restraint, and adherence to recognized
standards of form and craftsmanship,
especially from the Renaissance to the
18th century
.
❖ The following of traditional and long-
established theories or styles.

4. ❖ In its purest form, classicism is an
aesthetic attitude dependent on principles
based in the culture, art and literature of
ancient Greece and Rome, with the
emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion,
clarity of structure, perfection, restrained
emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the
intellect.

5. ❖ Classicism is a force which is often
present in post-medieval European and
European influenced traditions; however,
some periods felt themselves more
connected to the classical ideals than
others, particularly the Age of
Enlightenment, when Neoclassicism was
an important movement in the visual arts.

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7. Romanticism
❖ A movement in art and literature in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in
revolt against the Neoclassicism of the
previous centuries
.
❖The German poet Friedrich Schlegel, who
is given credit for first using the term
romantic to describe literature, defined it
as "literature depicting emotional matter in
an imaginative form."

8. ❖ This is as accurate a general definition as
can be accomplished, although Victor
Hugo's phrase "liberalism in literature" is
also apt
.
❖ Imagination, emotion, and freedom are
certainly the focal points of romanticism.

9. ❖ Any list of particular characteristics of the
literature of romanticism includes
subjectivity and an emphasis on
individualism; spontaneity; freedom from
rules; solitary life rather than life in society;
the beliefs that imagination is superior to
reason and devotion to beauty; love of and
worship of nature; and fascination with the
past, especially the myths and mysticism
of the middle ages.

10. ❖ A movement in the arts and literature that
originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing
inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the
individual
.
❖ The state or quality of being romantic
.
❖ Romanticism (also known as the Romantic
era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and
intellectual movement that originated in Europe
towards the end of the 18th century, and in
most areas was at its peak in the approximate
period from 1800 to 1850.

11. ❖ Romanticism was characterized by its
emphasis on emotion and individualism as well
as glorification of all the past and nature,
preferring the medieval rather than the
classical
.
❖ The movement emphasized intense emotion
as an authentic source of aesthetic experience,
placing new emphasis on such emotions as
apprehension, horror and terror, and awe-
especially that experienced in confronting the
new aesthetic categories of the sublimity and
beauty of nature.

12. ❖ The nature of Romanticism may be
approached from the primary importance
of the free expression of the feelings of the
artist. The importance the Romantics
placed on emotion is summed up in the
remark of the German painter Caspar
David Friedrich, ‘the artist's feeling is his
law’.

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