Romanticism

1. A literary and artistic movement of late eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, aimed at asserting the validity of subjective experience as a counter movement to the often cold formulas of Neoclassicism; characterized by intense emotional excitement and depictions of powerful forces in nature, exotic lifestyles, danger, suffering, and nostalgia. 2. Art of any period based on spontaneity, intuition, and emotion, rather than carefully organized rational approaches to form.

 

Eugene Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People in 1830 which is an example of the romantic style.