Romanticism
A movement that emphasised emotion, imagination, dramatic action and individual experience.
Example
A Louvre route can place Delacroix near Neoclassical works to make the competing approaches immediately visible.
Sources: louvre.fr
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Art movements
Neoclassicism
An artistic movement that drew on ancient Greek and Roman forms, subjects and ideals of clarity and order.
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Impressionism
A late nineteenth-century movement associated with visible brushwork, changing light and subjects drawn from modern...
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Post-Impressionism
A broad label for artists who developed distinct structural, symbolic or expressive approaches after Impressionism.
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Realism in art
A nineteenth-century approach that made contemporary people, labour and social life subjects for serious art.
