Neoclassicism and Romanticism
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Neoclassicism and Romanticism were two contemporary art movements in European painting of the first half of the 19th century.
Led by a new generation of the French school, the Romantic sensibility contrasted with neoclassicism being taught in the academies.
In a revived clash between color and design, the expressiveness and mood of color, as in works of J.M.W. Turner, Francisco Goya, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, emphasized the new prominence of the brushstroke and impasto and the artist's free handling of paint, which tended to be repressed in neoclassicism under a self-effacing finish.
Two quotes by French artist Ingres document the animosity between the two competing art movements: Ingres derisorily called Rubens, who was a hero of the French Romantics, "That Flemish meat merchant" and at Delacroix, the leader of the Romantic school from the 1820s onwards, after the death of Théodore Géricault, he jeered "Open the window I smell sulphur."
See also
- Flatness (art)
- French Neoclassicism
- French Romantic painting
- Romanticism in painting
- Poussinist-Rubenist debate
- Style war
