Romanticism is an artistic movement credited to the first half of the European 19th century. It emerged in Germany and Great Britain and soon spread beyond their borders. Their invasion must be framed in a historical time in which totalitarianism as a phase of government had abandoned its hegemonic form and as a consequence, new challenges arose in the meeting (especially those that inspired the French Revolution).
While in the 18th century the ideals of the Enlightenment prevail, the predominance of the law and the benefit of charity, the spirit of Romanticism advocates the hearts, the unjust and the personal.
The ideals of Romanticism were responsible for working areas such as painting, literature, music or philosophy. At the same time, this argument had a transcendental osmosis in routine, in traditions, in politics and, in general, in the way of warning history.
Nature was the great protagonist among the romantics. So much so that the sinister and misanthropic landscapes communicate the moods of the procreators (Friedrich's painting “The Lonely Tree” is a precise example of German dream lithography).
The vindication of the unique spirit of each people is another of the axes of this balance (the Germanic philosopher Hegel defended the effectiveness of the spirit of a homeland, an apprehension that had a memorable protection in different European nationalist events). It is optional to observe an altruistic pregnancy of the planet, which is manifested in a feeling of dissatisfaction, in the inebriation of the self and in a mismatch with the effectiveness in general.
The swell of the interiors is another of his characteristic themes, which can be clarified with “ The Hymn of Joy ” by Beethoven (considered the first romantic musician) or the verses of commitment by Bécquer. There is a distraction by the popular and the folkloric, an orientation that we can guess in the lies of the Brothers Grimm. On the other hand, some Frankish and British romantic representatives were interested in Spanish popular culture (Andalusian folklore, banditry or bullfighting).
They bet on the irrational to triumph over the austerity of 18th century rationalism (Coleridge's poem "The Ballad of the Old Mariner" describes the relationship of sailors involved in sinister events). There is a use by the normative universe, the eastern cosmos and the medieval. The bookish doer evades the modern congregation and seeks out the exoticism of other civilizations and the distraction of other times. So did the essayist Walter Scott in his history of the Middle Ages in Scotland or the painter Delacroix in his penchant for arguments from Eastern scholarship.
Emancipation is the ideal that inspires the universality of the fictitious. Examples that illustrate this evidence are found in the William Tell exposition told by Friedrich Schiller, in the "Ode to Freedom" by the Russian versist Alexander Pushkin or Delacroix's famous painting "Liberty Leading the People."
