Art is an artistic expression that has many stages. In this occasion our theme is the Romanticism. Romanticism is a literary, artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, specifically in Germany and United Kingdom. This cultural movement gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. Romanticism was against aristocratic social and the politic class. The ideologies and events of the French Revolution were very important in the Romanticism's developed. Paintings Wholesale has works of this movement.
Absolute freedom of thought is the main part of the Romanticism, for this reason, they reacted against the scientific rationalization and other parameters. With the time, Romanticism extends to France, Italy and Spain then this movement arrived to America. These are the most significant characteristics of the Romanticism: ego as an autonomous and fantastic entity, the strong nationalistic tendency, the supremacy of feeling against reason and primacy of creativity against the imitation.
If you present these characteristics, you could be considered as Romanticism's follower. Visit Paintings Wholesale for buying artworks. There are famous exponents of the Romanticism and this time we will talk about Eugene Delacroix. Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (born, 26 April 1798 ? died, 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist considered as the leader of the French Romantic School. Brushstrokes were characteristic in Delacroix. He uses expressive brushstrokes and effects of color profoundly. Delacroix's passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.
Besides painting, Delacroix also highlight in lithography. Delacroix's works include 853 paintings, 1,525 watercolors, 6,629 drawings, 109 lithographs and over 60 sketch books. Among his main paintings we can mention the followings: The Women of Algiers (1834), Lion Hunt (1861), George Sand (1838), The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1840) and The Death of Desdemona (1858). Mephistopheles flying over Wittenberg is a famous lithography. Find artworks of Delacroix in Paintings Wholesale.
