The Art Story Podcast
The Romanticism Art Movement
The Enlightenment and Neoclassical Art
by The Art Story
Dani Fallon and Rob Weinberg are joined by Kimberly Cooper to explore the artistic and literary movement that dominated the first half of the 19th century. The feelings, imagination and self-expression of Romanticism made a big break from the Neo-Classicism of the Enlightenment period and set the stage for all of the artistic innovations of the next two centuries. More: The Art Story -> Romanticism
Dani Fallon and Rob Weinberg explore how an entire style of art and architecture evolved during a period known as the Enlightenment, or the ‘Age of Reason’. Neoclassicism arose in a time of scientific and industrial innovation and political change, when big questions were being asked about traditional power structures. At the same time, the discovery of the ancient ruins inspired Neoclassicists to give to their own work the realism, beauty, and simpler symmetry of the Greeks and Romans. More: The Art Story -> Neoclassical Art
What and who was responsible for the most innovative period of art making and thought in 1500 years? Dani and Rob discuss what transpired. More: The Art Story -> Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, The Venetian School, The Northern Renaissance