What are the major differences between Romanticism and Neoclassicism art?

Answer 1

Classicism and Naturalism were the two trends in Renaissance art. Naturalism is artwork based on direct observation of nature. Classicism is artwork created by using mathematics for pictorial composition: order, balance, stability, etc.

Answer 2

Classicism is aesthetic attitudes and principles based on culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion.

Characteristics of Classicism are belief in reason, civilized, modern, sophisticated, interest in urban society, human nature, love, satire, expression of acceptance, moral truth, realism, beleif in good and evil, religion, philosophy, generic obstruction, impersonal objectivity, public themes, formal correctness, idea of order.

Romanticism emerged as a reaction against Neoclassicism. The Neoclassical age emphasized on reason and logic. The Romantic period wanted to break away from the traditions and conventions that were dear to the Neoclassical age and make way for individuality and experimentation. One of the fundamentals of Romanticism is the belief in the natural goodness of man, the idea that man in a state of nature would behave well but is hindered by civilization.

Characteristics of Romanticism are belief in feelings, imagination, Intuition, Primitive, Medieval, natural modes, rural solitude, aesthetic, spiritual, value of external nature, love for vision, mysteriousness, idea, infinite, myth-making, beauty, truth, faith in progress, belief in man and goodness, individual speculation, revelation, concrete particulars, subjectivity, private themes, individual expressiveness, intensity, curiosity, images, symbols, common language, self-consciousness, romantic Hellenism.

Answer 3

NeoClassicism and Romanticism 1740-1850

These two styles of painting were considered enemies. One wanted to portray the absolute truth

of life and the other wanted to depict reality through images of the wild and raw emotions that

prevailed after the Revolution. A vast gulf existed between them and the debate was often long

and bitter, but in the end Romanticism emerged as the dominant style of this period.

Neoclassicism was born out of a rejection of the Rocco and late Baroque styles in the middle of

the 18th century. These artists wanted a style that could convey serious moral ideas such as

justice, honor, and patriotism. The movement was a profoundly educational one, for its devotees

believed that the fine arts could and should spread knowledge and enlightenment.

Romanticism began in the same era but its approach had to do with the modern rather than the

antique. It was about wildness and expression rather than control. Romantic artists had no fixed

laws relating to beauty and properties of subject matter. Instead, Romanticism was a creative

outlook, a way of life.

Answer 4

Classicism is any attempt to emulate style and idea of ancient Greece or Rome. Neoclassicism is a label for this kind of art about 1800, mainly by Jacques-Louis David and his colleagues.

Answer 5

Romanicism: evening twilight feelings. Neoclassicism: broad daylight heroic feelings.