"Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement. It starts as a reaction against the intellectualism of the Enlightenment, against the rigidity of social structures protecting privilege, and against the materialism of an age which, in the first stirring of the Industrial Revolution, already shows signs of making workers the slaves of machinery and of creating squalid urban environments" (The Romantic Movement)
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| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Bake, one of the most predominant author in the Romantic Movement. |
In my opinion, in the Romantic Movement, more people get to know and like arts and literatures, because before the Romantic Movement, arts and literatures are more about royal, authority, noble, and normal people do not get to know a lot or understand a lot about them. In the Romantice Movement, people were writing, painting with themes that are "natural"; thus, works during that period, people were more familiar to them, and therefore, they would have higher interest in knowing more about them, and even try to learn them. With more people getting involve in arts and literatures, the literacy level also went up.
People at that time got to express their emotions and opinions in more ways, such as poetry, painting, music; therefore, in the Romantice Movement, the collision of ideologies was a catalyzer to the development and improvment of civilization.
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| Turner: Two women and a letter (The Yorck Project) |
Citation:
The Romantic Movement:http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa73
The Yorck Project: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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