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
Catherine Yang
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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 is a reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York.
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