Assignments and Discussions | Introduction to Sociology

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Introduction
The era of 1800- 50 was termed as the age of sensibility. Romanticism, the art movement
majorly portrayed as the power of passion influenced the artists and the writers to choose
intuitions and emotions over their rational objectivity (Strickland and Boswell, 2007). This
furthermore influenced the artists to paint what he sees before and also what he observed within
himself. The contribution of this art movement in the history of art encompasses over its cult
regarding the worship of the nature (Boyiopoulos and Sandy, 2016). The significance of this art
movement is that both nature and man were viewed to touch by supernatural in the terms of inner
diversity. The essay focuses over the art movement of Romanticism and highlights the
contribution and significance of the movement within the history of art. The essay furthermore
focuses over the artists and their contribution to romanticism art movement within the history of
art.
Discussion
The famous art movement of Romanticism emerged from the revived interest within the
medieval tale of romances. The famous art movement had its origin in Germany and slowly
spread over the parts of England (Honour, 2018). The art movement of romanticism was the
major antithesis of the neoclassicism. Instead of praising the intellectual discipline and stoicism
of individuals, the artists of the romanticism art period contributed to the celebration of the
perception of individual and emotional intuition. The beginning of the 19th century promoted the
imagination and creative intuition as the basis of the romanticism art basis. The context of
romanticism enabled the painters to pursue their passion fully as well as living intensely, which
had a price, rather than wisely. The beginning of this era of the art movement lifted the position
of the painting of landscape by providing heroic overtones of natural scenes.

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One of the most renowned artists within this movement of Romanticism was Theodore Gericault
who contributed to the history of art and this art movement by launching the concept of
romanticism with one painting (Etro and Stepanova, 2015). Theodore Gericault during the era of
1791-1824 painted his famous painting, “The Raft of the Medusa” on a huge canvas of (16' x 23
V2') size. The context or the subject of the painting by Gericault was based over a contemporary
event of shipwreck which caused some of the major political scandal (Lazarou, 2015).
Picture - Gericault, "The Raft of the Medusa," 1818-19, Louvre, Paris.
The plot or the story of the painting in the light of the French romanticism movement, revolved
around Medusa, the government ship which sank off the western coast of the Africa while
carrying French colonist to the Senegal due to the captain’s incompetence (Boyiopoulos and
Sandy, 2016). Gericault portrayed the grisly tales of madness, starvation and the cannibalism.
The painting has been one of the extraordinary preparations accounting for the grim detail of the
painter , thus signifying the movement (Clark & Connolly, 2015). Gericault’s painting