Chopin and Delacroix: How Romanticism Grapples With Past and Present

Chopin and Delacroix: How Romanticism Grapples With Past and Present
Lion Hunt by Eugène Delacroix. Nationalmuseum
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Nestled between the 18th-century Age of Reason and 19th-century realism, Romanticism was a movement that gripped the most passionate of artists and intellectuals in our Western canon, giving us lasting works that glorified the past, nature, and the depths of human emotion and creativity.

Romanticism, at its purest, seeks the unattainable ideal.

Catherine Yang
Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.
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