Perhaps one of the most significant achievements was the ability to convey raw uncensored emotion. One person who pioneered the Romantic era (pioneered as much as the Romantic would let him) was Francisco Goya. Goya created such masterpieces as “Family of Charles IV,” “Third of May 1808,” and “Great Courage! Against Corpses!”. Each of these paintings conveys the emotions of Goya. “Family of Charles IV” shows the family exactly as they appeared to Goya. He did not make them look better or worse. He did however make their clothes appear to sparkle with his use of light. “Third of May 1808” shows Goya’s inability to understand the inhumanity in war. In this painting the man being executed is in a Christ like position, with light being shown on him. To his left are those already executed, and to the right those whom are awaiting e

Ralph Waldo Emerson developed Transcendentalism. He wrote his famous essay “Nature” during this time. Emerson developed his idea of Transcendentalism from William Wordsworth, and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Emerson believed that there are things that one can never really know. These things being the items the mind creates for itself. He also believed that there are things that we receive through impressions. He called the first noumena and the latter phenomena. He also brought Henry David Thoreau into the light.

Philosophy was greatly effected by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau developed phenomena known as thy “self”. Rousseau was greatly interested in the idea of partiality of ones’ self. He also entertained himself by concerning himself with social themes. Rousseau also wrote books. He wrote about his development of ideas. In his Discourse of Inequailty he critiqued the ideas of Thomas Hobbes. He wrote another book entitled Confessions in which he analyzed and reflected upon himself.

Delacroix’s “Odalisque” is a painting with very sensual. It is sensual in that it shows a woman almost completely exposed, it also uses very intense brush strokes. It leaves the eye wondering which is more sensual the women in the painting or the brush strokes. This is common in Romantic paintings because the artist wants to convey emotion not shape per say.

J.M.W. Turner was

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