Romantic Paintings
Sublime landscapes and storms at sea: Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Aivazovsky, Delacroix and Goya.
10 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
Feeling over reason
Romanticism in painting, roughly 1800 to 1850, turned from the clarity of the Enlightenment toward awe, solitude and the power of nature. Caspar David Friedrich painted figures from behind, looking out at fog and ice; Turner dissolved ships and trains into weather; Delacroix and Goya painted revolution and war with a violence no academy taught. Ivan Aivazovsky, working in Crimea, made the storm at sea his life's single subject and painted it some six thousand times.
The works in this collection
Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and The Sea of Ice; Turner's The Fighting Temeraire and Rain, Steam and Speed; Constable's The Hay Wain; Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People; Goya's The Third of May 1808; Aivazovsky's The Ninth Wave, The Black Sea and a moonlit night on the Black Sea.
Choosing a Romantic print
The Wanderer is the most-hung of them, an upright that suits a hallway or a study wall. The seascapes and the Turners are wide and dramatic and belong above a sofa or a bed at 24×16 or 36×24.