Romanticism v realism

... Discuss the similarities and differences between two different art movements Romanticism and realism are completely different movements in terms of their ideas, concepts, influences, techniques etc. Romanticism is the term coined for the movement that had a significant impact on art and human creativity in the first half of the 19th century. It is known as the romantic movement of romantic revival. Its chief emphasis was upon freedom of individual and self expression, spontaneity and originality. The romantics focused on emotional impact of personal experience and individual imagination. This emotional impact used forms of nostalgia, horror, melancholy and sentimentality. It often showed interest in the realms of dream and folklore, superstition and legend. In a wider sense it questioned the great themes of our universe. Who are we? And why are we here? Theodore Gericualt was the leading artist of this movement. "The raft of the medusa" took the ordeals of the

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