Romantic Values

In contrast to the pervious time period, the age of reason, the romantic values imagination and freedom. Romanticism values emotions, feelings and individuality. It emphasizes freedom of thinking and closeness to nature. In romantic artwork, things are sometimes abstract or not clear. It believe it is so because our emotions are not something that is set in stone. There is a lot of in-betweens and different sensation when describing emotions. Imagination is something that is even more abstract. Every person thinks differently. An artwork created by a person with a certain feeling might give another person that is looking at the artwork a different feeling.

One thing I found very interesting that this time period came right after the age of reason. The age of reason is the total opposite of romanticism. It seeks to prove everything in the world. Everything should the clear and precise. People tried to find reasons for everything. Artworks during that period are usually very balanced, with a focus on form and unity. It seems as though there is a lack of emotion. People seek to derive, prove and ration things in the world. How Romanticism came out of Reasoning is a total mystery for me. Did people just get tired of solving and proving everything? Or did people just one day find out that emotions are very important too and took a 180 turn and focused on the other direction?