Romanticism

Romanticism was a movement against the Age of Enlightenment. The Age of Enlightenment brought scientific thought and rationalization to be considered as a normal process of observation and thought. Artists, however, believed that this 'rationalization' would bring doubt and thoughts that prohibit the way the art piece was written, painted, or performed in the eye's of the beholder. Romanticists feared the new scientific breakthroughs specifically with how science show nature. The new view on nature that science displayed was not kind to what artists wanted to display and perhaps would illegitimize their works of art.