“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian Smee NEW ...
The arrival of early 20th-century avant-gardism is generally considered the historical tsunami that swamped the conventions of Western art dating from the Renaissance. Yet this wave had begun building ...
NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...