During the 19th century, a great change was in place! It was known as romanticism!!! Gaining strength from the industrial revolution, the romantic era was a movement against aristocratic social and political norms. This era, although mostly embodied in visual arts, music, literature, and nature, had a large impact on modern day education and history.
These are some pictures that embody the romantic feelings. Notice all the emotion, imagination, and subjectivity in the approach. The largeness of nature and how miraculously you and I associate with it so well. The feeling of discovery, not only of the wide world, but also of the inner man. Much emphasis was put on emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience. Intuition, imagination, and feeling replaced rationalism, logic, and order.
Writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau found inspiration in nature and the human imagination. The beauty of this new realm differed largely from that of previous times. Nature was encouraged as a form of innocence in human kind. On the other hand, industrialism and modernization threatened this force.
The new approach to life and discovering "man's desire to redefine himself" fed into the American ideology and philosophy: a new desire to discover belonging in a world of innovation. This quest for discovery and balance embodies the democratic spirit, where one must discover equality and liberty. Romanticism introduced a whole new level for learning and creation, which carries on today through various means.
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