The Romantic Era a.k.a. the Enlightment Era

The romantic era was mostly considered the enlightenment era because it brought change to the way a person would look at nature and themselves. This changed how people imagined things. By the end of the 19th century the romantic era was started. Many artisans took this change to make literature, music, and poetry more emotional and self-embodiment.
During this time period artists became famous and inspired many people with their works. Caspar David Friedrich was a famous artist who lived from 1774-1840 in Greifswald, Germany. He was known for painting mediums with watercolors and oils, which is landscape art. Friedrich changed the face of landscape paintings with his intense and emotional focus on nature and became a key member of the Romantic Movement. "Friedrich demonstrated piety to God through nature, the diminished strength of man in the larger scale of life, and great emotion."( Artble ) Some of Friedrich's best known works and most easily recognizable paintings include Cross in the Mountains, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and Two Men Contemplating the Moon. Another famous artist is Ferdinand Eugene Victor Delacroix, more commonly known as Eugene Delacroix, was a French painter who had a profound influence on the Romantic Movement. He was known as a master of color. He lived from 1798-1863 in Charenton, France. He focused on oil, pastel, wood, and other verities of paintings and drawings. Delacroix became a pupil of the English Romantic landscapists and extracted from their techniques, to develop a unique and memorable approach to color. Delacroix's paintings changed the art world forever and his technique had a lasting impact on the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements. Today, Eugene Delacroix is remembered as one...

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...ch as William Wordsworth, and John Keats propelled the English Romantic movement. Many of the poems that they made are still read and enjoyed by many people today around the world. Thus, the Romantic era produced many of the stereotypes of poets and poetry that exist to this day.
In the time of the Romantic revolution in literature so did a similar revolution in the music arts too. In 1820, Beethoven began to write passionate music which often threatened to move aside the classical forms which many composers used then. After this radical departure from tradition, many composers felt free to experiment and make new types of music. So the rise of the new middle classes created an audience seeking new music. It was the audiences which were drawn to the emotion in the arts, and music that made it what it is today, by experimenting and trying new methods or techniques.