Explains the difference between romanticism and realism in specific works of art. Includes a works cited.

Title: Explains the difference between romanticism and realism in specific works of art. Includes a works cited.
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Explains the difference between romanticism and realism in specific works of art. Includes a works cited.

Romantic or Real Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style, technique, or attitude, but romantic painting is generally characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and a dreamlike or visionary quality. Romantic art characteristically strives to express by suggestion, states of feeling too intense, mystical, or elusive to be clearly defined. Realism, on the other hand, is an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects …showed first 75 words of 557 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 557 total…Constable uses luminous colors and bold brushwork to bring his painting the "The Hay Wain" together as a whole, while Daumier with his dark tones and free brushwork chooses to separate his subjects in "The Third Class Carriage." Word count 510 Works Cited "Constable, John " and "Daumier, Honoré." Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001. 1997-2001 Microsoft Corporation. <http://encarta.msn.com>. Matthews, Roy T., and F. DeWitt Platt. The Western Humanities. 4th ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 2001.

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