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ROMANTIC STYLE

In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.

Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.

British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.

The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.

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Style: Romantic
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Located in Los Angeles, CA
These images are available as hand-pulled polymer photogravures, made with bone black and warm sepia inks on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper. Edition of 109 7 x 9 photopolymer gravure Signed numbered and dated by the artist Framing options available The photographs and poem that evolved into this series of photographs and the accompanying book “Yesterday” were made during the summer of 2020. Although much of the country was in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, on this remote island off the coast of Maine, we still felt free from much of the toll that Covid was taking. Able to spend time outside, in nature, we had the illusion of safety, of normalcy almost, whilst at the same time being painfully aware of how the virus was increasingly touching everyone's lives. By then we all knew of people who had died, or become ill and we were managing the stress of futures shifting and plans that had been derailed, fearing what would come with the change of the seasons. That summer represented a pause in time, a moment where life could feel normal, when we were still holding on to a world of yesterdays. Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; combining her poetry with alternative processes of photography and object-making. Taylor Kydd’s fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, San Miguel De Allende, Portland, Boston and Los Angeles; and she has been featured in numerous publications, including Shots Magazine, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Lenscratch, Diffusion Annual and The Hand magazine. She has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum, Bowdoin College, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Taylor Kydd’s latest book “Yesterday”, produced by Datz Press, is a limited edition book of poems and photographs that explores our sense of loss around the pandemic of 2020. Taylor Kydd is also a veteran workshop leader and educator and has led workshops and conducted portfolio reviews throughout the country and internationally with Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Photography...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Photogravure

Maiden
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These images are available as hand-pulled polymer photogravures, made with bone black and warm sepia inks on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper. Edition of 109 7 x 9 photopolymer gravure Signed numbered and dated by the artist Framing options available The photographs and poem that evolved into this series of photographs and the accompanying book “Yesterday” were made during the summer of 2020. Although much of the country was in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, on this remote island off the coast of Maine, we still felt free from much of the toll that Covid was taking. Able to spend time outside, in nature, we had the illusion of safety, of normalcy almost, whilst at the same time being painfully aware of how the virus was increasingly touching everyone's lives. By then we all knew of people who had died, or become ill and we were managing the stress of futures shifting and plans that had been derailed, fearing what would come with the change of the seasons. That summer represented a pause in time, a moment where life could feel normal, when we were still holding on to a world of yesterdays. Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; combining her poetry with alternative processes of photography and object-making. Taylor Kydd’s fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, San Miguel De Allende, Portland, Boston and Los Angeles; and she has been featured in numerous publications, including Shots Magazine, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Lenscratch, Diffusion Annual and The Hand magazine. She has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum, Bowdoin College, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Taylor Kydd’s latest book “Yesterday”, produced by Datz Press, is a limited edition book of poems and photographs that explores our sense of loss around the pandemic of 2020. Taylor Kydd is also a veteran workshop leader and educator and has led workshops and conducted portfolio reviews throughout the country and internationally with Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Photography...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Photogravure

Lola s World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These images are available as hand-pulled polymer photogravures, made with bone black and warm sepia inks on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper. Edition of 109 7 x 9 photopolymer gravure Signed numbered and dated by the artist. The photographs and poem that evolved into this series of photographs and the accompanying book “Yesterday” were made during the summer of 2020. Although much of the country was in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, on this remote island off the coast of Maine, we still felt free from much of the toll that Covid was taking. Able to spend time outside, in nature, we had the illusion of safety, of normalcy almost, whilst at the same time being painfully aware of how the virus was increasingly touching everyone's lives. By then we all knew of people who had died, or become ill and we were managing the stress of futures shifting and plans that had been derailed, fearing what would come with the change of the seasons. That summer represented a pause in time, a moment where life could feel normal, when we were still holding on to a world of yesterdays. Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; combining her poetry with alternative processes of photography and object-making. Taylor Kydd’s fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, San Miguel De Allende, Portland, Boston and Los Angeles; and she has been featured in numerous publications, including Shots Magazine, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Lenscratch, Diffusion Annual and The Hand magazine. She has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum, Bowdoin College, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Taylor Kydd’s latest book “Yesterday”, produced by Datz Press, is a limited edition book of poems and photographs that explores our sense of loss around the pandemic of 2020. Taylor Kydd is also a veteran workshop leader and educator and has led workshops and conducted portfolio reviews throughout the country and internationally with Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Photography...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Photogravure

Looking for Answers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series Story Lines Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Light
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series The Whispering Dark Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Vintage Glasses
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper From the series The Whispering Dark Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory. Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

On the Lagoon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lost Venice highlights the Renaissance past of a city that Hadley visited often as a child and where she later lived and worked. Her ethereal, sepia-toned photographs capture the all...
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2010s Romantic Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Miss Kidd
Located in London, GB
Signed and numbered Fine art print on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper Tim Bret-Day always felt like the odd one out and connected with the outsiders. Tim's dad was French, chic, and gre...
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Early 2000s Romantic Art

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Archival Pigment

Frogs in love
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Couple of frogs reflect love
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pas de Deux - Romantic Tango Partner Dance in Central Park Bandshell
Located in Miami, FL
Two Tango Dancers immersed in their art, strike-the-pose under the towering classical half down. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was there at the perfect moment to capture a non...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Romantic Bethesda Fountain with Angel of the Waters Bronze Statue Colorful Water
Located in Miami, FL
A long lens isolates three nude chubby child figures from the Angel of the Waters Bronze Statue in Central Park. They are juxtaposed with three modern-day figures in a rowboat. The...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Romantic Street Musician Playing the Saxophone in Golden Light and Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Golden orange light caresses a street musician as he serenades the public. We can not actually hear his music but the way the picture has been crafted in beautiful tones of orange a...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Billionaires Row Manhattan. Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
Located in Miami, FL
Billionaires' Row skyscrapers shimmer in a rich golden light with later afternoon rainbow. The warm colors of the Central Park South skyline are offset by the vibrant green of the great lawn. It acts as a counterpoint to the buildings. At the end of the rainbow lies a lot of golden buildings. This is one of the most appropriate places for a rainbow to end. The pot of gold...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Moody 59th Street Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Moody Manhattan. Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photogr...
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Early 2000s Romantic Art

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Inkjet

Antique German porcelain plaque signed Haak
Located in London, GB
Antique German porcelain plaque signed 'Haak' German, late 19th Century Frame: Height 42cm, width 36cm, depth 3cm Plaque: Height 28.5cm, width 22.5cm, depth 0.5cm This fine and detailed German porcelain plaque depicts a man and a woman in medieval dress...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

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Porcelain, Paint

Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Rural Tree Study in English Countryside by 20th Century British Landscape Artist, James Wright Signed, Original, Oil on Canvas, housed in a beautiful ornate gold frame. Provenance: Part of the English Heritage...
Category

1990s Romantic Art

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Canvas, Oil

Black Silk Romantic Portrait of Woman with Flowers on Black in Black Dress
Located in Wellesley, MA
Ġoxwa began painting at a very young age in her native land of Malta and eventually enrolled at the Saint Martin School of Art in London. Years later, she moved to Boston and atte...
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Wax

Combat: Indian, Horse and Buffalo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Combat: Indian, Horse and Buffalo: Arthur Putnam (September 6, 1873 – May 27, 1930) was an American sculptor and animalier who was recognized for his bronze sculptures of wild animals. Some of his artworks are public monuments. He was a well-known figure, both statewide and nationally, during the time he lived in California. Putnam was regarded as an artistic genius in San Francisco and his life was chronicled in the San Francisco and East Bay newspapers. He won a gold medal at the 1915 San Francisco...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Bronze

Venus Africaine, Bronze by Charles Cordier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Venus Africaine by Charles Cordier, French (1827–1905) Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed Size: 15 x 9 x 5 in. (38.1 x 22.86 x 12.7 cm)
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Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Bronze

Gold Despair
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Gold & Despair is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece "The Woman In Gold", also known as The Mona Lisa of Austria. Having admired the symbolic art of Klimt since my working days as a fine art restorer at Vienna’s prestigious Conservation Institute (Bundesdenkmalamt) in the 1980’s, I conceived the idea to recreate the jewel of his gilded period with an interpretive lens on the looming darkness of the Holocaust and World War II. As a native of Austria, Salzburg, I have developed an appreciation for Klimt’s art, and Art Nouveau in general. For the last thirty years, I have lived in New York City and worked as a fine art restorer, conservator, and painter as well as in the healing arts. Klimt had executed The Woman in Gold in the span of four years (1903-1907). My own creative process during 2014-2017, reflects my diligent care and thoroughness in rendering the original painting. In 2014, I started with the preparation of the canvas using Klimt’s original size of 54 x 54 inches (167 x 167 cm). For gesso, I used the traditional method of rabbit skin glue and chalk. For the painting, I used oil paints and genuine 23.5 karat gold in various shades, as well as silver leaves, to magnify the brilliant sheen of Klimt’s gold...
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2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Brigitte Nataf 03
Located in New York, NY
This artwork is offered in 3 sizes. The price of the artwork increases with the edition. Please contact us to inquire about the current edition number, availability, and price. ONLY...
Category

2010s Romantic Art

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Photographic Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment, Color, Archival Pigment

Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)
Located in Austin, TX
"Le Sentier Idylle (the Happy Path)" by French Romantic painter Lazare Meyer (1847-1935) 51.5 x 31.5 in. - Oil Paint on Canvas Framed A luminous, two figure composition depicting a ...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Turtle Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Beautiful drawing by enigmatic artist Len Poteshman
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Charcoal, Oil

Turtle Man
Turtle Man
Price Upon Request

Romantic art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Romantic art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hiro Yokose, Francisco Goya, Leo Primavesi, and Dipen Bose. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Romantic art, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $119 and tops out at $1,300,000, while the average work sells for $2,213.

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