| In this new age of digital displays, everything comes | | | | comprehend, neither can romantic art be confined to |
| to you frame by frame, pixel by pixel. You measure | | | | a box or to a structure. Its themes and expressions |
| clarity by dots per inch, ratio and proportion. The | | | | are limitless and endless like they universe they |
| images you receive are extremely vivid and graphic, | | | | represent. |
| stimulating all your senses especially hearing and | | | | It pulses with energy in its own quietly smooth and |
| vision. | | | | free-flowing way. The melodrama comes alive in how |
| Once in a while, in the midst of all these fast-paced | | | | the viewer interprets and appreciates the work. It |
| images flashing before you, you encounter some | | | | breathes life into art, primarily because it is all about |
| still-life poses that halt you into a sudden lull. It may | | | | life, the ways of nature, and the heart and soul of |
| be in the form of an acrylic painting from some | | | | men. It ultimately speaks about the joys and sorrows |
| bygone, romantic era of the past. You say to | | | | of being human and how we are such |
| yourself, what a contrast. It invites you to simply | | | | emotional-driven creatures by nature. |
| slow down, pause for a minute, and ponder on what | | | | Romantic art happens to you. It is a deeply personal |
| you have just seen. That is how romantic art affects | | | | experience that affects you. No one says how it |
| you at first sight. | | | | should be painted or how you should perceive it. |
| In psychology, "affect" means your overall disposition | | | | Some people may share a common perception and |
| or state of emotions. Romantic art goes straight for | | | | may be touched by romantic art in a similar way, but |
| your affect, like Cupid's arrow. The strokes of | | | | some may also experience it quite differently from |
| romantic art are soft and soulful, yet intense and | | | | others and this can be personally revealing to them. |
| heartfelt. It is extremely creative and imaginative, | | | | Romantic art is a timeless medium. From the early |
| going beyond what you would expect. There is | | | | seeds of romanticism planted in the Renaissance to |
| something poetic about how its messages are | | | | its full blossom in the early nineteenth century to its |
| conveyed without the need for words. It uses a | | | | persistence and flourish among painters and artists of |
| combination of color, light, and shadow to dramatize | | | | today, romantic art will go on for many generations |
| how life with its inevitably hard struggles and ordeals | | | | to come. It will never be outdated by modern |
| can remain soft and vulnerable. Yes, the outlines of | | | | technology or modern ways of delivering art forms. |
| reality may be sharp and clear, but the presentation | | | | Every time an artist dreams up a concept for a |
| of its inner truths needs not be harsh. | | | | romantic painting and creates it in some smooth fine |
| Romantic art is a form of spontaneous expression of | | | | strokes inspired by true emotion, then romantic art |
| an artist's deepest thoughts and emotions just as the | | | | will be reborn time and again in every heart and soul |
| inspiration moves them. Since it symbolizes oneness | | | | that gets deeply affected by it. |
| with the universe that the mind cannot fully | | | | |