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The 1917 happened during the last phases of the World War 1.... This was a reaction to the previous movement which is enlightenment.... enlightenment emphasizes the power of logic and the scientific method over anything else.... There are no absolute truths unlike in Classicism or enlightenment.... According to the Romantics, the theories of enlightenment prevent emotions and creativity, turning man into a robot and man must liberate himself from these chains – through romanticism....
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The 18th century Europe witnessed the enlightenment movement, which was an intellectual revolution.... From the viewpoint of socio-political phenomena, the enlightenment period is believed to have started close with the thirty years of wars and came to an end after the French revolution.... the enlightenment thinkers believed that reason would salvage man from religious authoritarianism and superstition that had brought suffering, misery, and death to many people in religious wars....
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The essay " Art History - romanticism" discovers the Romantic Movement.... The major characteristics that were attributed to romanticism included a high appreciation of nature's beauty, a deep turning towards the inner self and scrutiny of human personality and mental capabilities.... The Romantic Movement and the whole concept of romanticism occurred between the 18th and 19th century.... romanticism was embedded on the act of shying away from the traditional precepts of thinking also referred to as classicism....
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Although Blake is considered usually a romantic precursor in art, in this particular painting, he depicts precisely the most characteristic values of the enlightenment era.... Art is the ideal illustration for these movements, and this essay will discuss the contrasting values manifested in two paintings belonging to the historical movements of the enlightenment and Romanticism: William Blake's Newton (1795), and Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich....
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This discussion talks that Romanticism was partly a revolt against the aristocratic, social and political norms of the Age of enlightenment.... This essay stresses the growth of romanticism, which started in the second half of the 18th century.... romanticism stressed on strong emotion as a spring for visual experiences thus placing emphasizes on such emotions as fear, terror, and awe.... romanticism can trace its roots to the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant....
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This essay demonstrates that in the enlightenment period of literature, the societal influence had a say as a result of the slow but gradual popularity that literature had gained among the public.... In the enlightenment period of literature, the societal influence had a say as a result of the slow but gradual popularity that literature had gained among the public.... The objective of this essay is to analyze the themes of Romance and Religion as covered by the enlightenment period, Romanticism period and Renaissance period....
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Romanticism sought to promote the values of communal consciousness and the belonging to What follows is an analysis of the social background at the time and the role the society plays in Anderson's romanticism ideas, and the extent to which decentralization is in harmony with opposition of romanticism to scientific rationalism of the enlightenment.... The era of romanticism in the nineteenth century saw literature experience a shift of its focus from faith in reason to faith in senses, feelings, and imaginations....
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The Age of Reason, or the enlightenment, trusted that in the proper use of the intellect, humans could overcome the urge to commit random acts of evil against themselves and others.... According to historian Norman Hampson, the enlightenment was convinced that the affairs of man were guided by a beneficent God.... during the last two decades of the eighteenth century, musicians, painters, and writers all across Europe reacted against the values and aesthetic sensibilities that shaped a century whose core beliefs were rooted in scientific principles, reason, and rationality....
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