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TITLE: Romanticism

DESCRIPTION: ROMANTICISM approx 100 yrs 1750-1850. Style started in France in reaction to Neoclassicism. AWAY from the Neoclassical "group mentality/duty to the state" and TOWARD "individual responses." Romanticism a state of feeling, emotional unrest reaching max intensity in 1820's. ROMANTICISM: INTERESTED IN NON-CLASSICAL LIT. AND HIST. (medieval, Dante, Nordic myth etc.) By turn of 19th cent. there was awe,terror,hallucination & mystery in art. CHARACTERISTICS: 1.Melancholy 2.Primitivism 3.Sentimentalism 4.Individiualism 5.Exoticism 6.Medieval revival 7.Revolution