Romanticism

Eugene Delacroix, The Lion Hunt

Romanticism is the style that portrays dramatic and exotic subjects perceived with strong feelings. Eugene Delacroix’s romantic paintings include stylistic traits such as glowing colors and swirling action. The Lion Hunt (above) depicts these elements of style. Personally, I don’t like this style that much. However, I do think its interesting how this artist began to paint using blurred colors to represent motion. I prefer the work of John Constable in The Traveller as he uses tiny dabs of pure color with bits of white to capture the changing face of nature.

John Constable, The Traveller