The document discusses the key aspects of romantic art. Nature was the main source of inspiration, as romantic philosophers emphasized feelings, instincts, and natural forces as expressions of the divine. Major influences included Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Kant's view of the interdependence between the human soul and nature. Romantic artists were seen as geniuses who followed their own spontaneous inspiration like nature, rather than rules. This led to a cult of nature and feelings and an exaltation of nature's wilderness and contrasts in light and darkness. True art for romantics sprang from the contact between the artist's interiority and nature, which was seen as God's expression on Earth. Friedrich's paintings directly depicted nature to

1. Arte romantica
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2. nature
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Main source of inspiration for art. How?
Sturm und Drang (philosophical and
literary current (1770-1785) had exalted:
Feelings
Instincts
The genius
Natural forces meant as expression of
the divine (see Rousseau)
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3. influences
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1774: The sorrows of Young Werther by
Goethe
Criticism of Judgement by Kant
(interdependence of human soul and
natural world)
Schelling Friedrich : the father of the
romantic philosophy of nature (1797). Art
con grasp the link between man and the
cosmos > cognitive power of art
On the sublime by E. Burke (1756)
which exalted beauty and the sublime
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4. The Artist
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A genius who does not follow any
rules or intellectual tenets but
rather follows his own spontaneous
inspiration, like nature
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5. Consequences:
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Cult of nature and of feelings which led
to > individualism and introspection
In particular exaltation of nature in its
wilderness , in its contrast of light and
darkness, in the picturesque
True art springs from the contact
between the artist ‘s interiority and
nature which is the expression of God on
the earth
The artist is a creator who is gifted with
inspiration = a celestial quality not a
human one .
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6. Friedrich said:
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’…the only true art is our heart, the
language of a pure and naive soul’
‘Each masterpiece is thought of in
a sacred hour and is born in a
happy hour without the artist being
conscious of it, out of an interior
heart pulse’
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7. Friedrich
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painter of nature
Complete communion with it so as
to grasp its symbols, its spirit
He represents the tombs, the ruins,
the moonlight to go beyond it, to
show the grandeur of the natural
event
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8. Esempi concreti
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9. Conclusione
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10. Fasi successive
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Riassumere i compiti assegnati
agli spettatori
Illustrare brevemente le azioni che
si intende intraprendere di persona
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