The role of landscape painting of french romantic painters

Abstract

Purpose of Research. The research is devoted to the era of Romanticism with the identification of the foundations on which the philosophy of this period is based. The problems of the individual and the significance of landscape in the works of painting of this epoch are considered. The research of this trend in art remains important for understanding its significance for the entire 19th century, as well as for the further development of painting. Methodology. The methodology of the research consists in applying the historical-cultural, comparative, and method of formal analysis. This methodological approach allows us to discover and analyze the works of outstanding masters of the Romantic era. Scientific Novelty. The scientific novelty of the work is to determine the artistic and aesthetic features of the romantic trend in the art of the XIX century. The influence of literature on the development of painting is studied and a new romantic poetics of the landscape is defined. Conclusions. Understanding the regularities of the development of Romanticism in European art makes it possible to assert that the fruitful interconnection of various kinds of arts has become an exceptional phenomenon of an entire era that united artists with a certain worldview and a special relation to the surrounding reality. European romanticism essentially reformed the landscape genre, saturating the images of nature with symbols and carried out important discoveries in the field of plein air painting.