What EXACTLY is Romanticism?

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I can't seem to grasp it's meaning.

Answer 1

Romanticism is the conceptual school of art. It deals, not with the random trivia of the day, but with the timeless, fundamental, universal problems and values of human existence. It does not record or photograph; it creates and projects. It is concerned—in the words of Aristotle—not with things as they are, but with things as they might be and ought to be.

Romanticism is a category of art based on the recognition of the principle that man possesses the faculty of volition.

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Romantic art: ( (b) A form closer to and less independent of emotions than classic form. -- L.V.

Such a general attitude and purpose of course allow for vast specific differences, and under the term romantics must be included artists and theorists who stress varying aspects of nature and man. All have in common a rejection of formal restraints, an obseesion with their experience of nature, and the conviction that this felt quality of things is of ultimate value in its immediacy.

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Answer 3

ro·man·ti·cism       (rō-mān'tÄ­-sÄ­z'əm)  

n.  

often Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.

Romantic quality or spirit in thought, expression, or action.