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Podcast: Professor Lan.AI Explores Humanity
Episode: Lecture 35: Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism - Art in the 19th Century
Description: To unravel the philosophical and cultural threads of romanticism, we need to journey back to its origin and engage with its aesthetic ideals.
Romanticism as a cultural and intellectual movement took root in Europe during the late 18th century as a counterpoint to the Enlightenment's rationalism, mechanistic views, and strict neoclassicism. The age of revolutions, including the French and the American revolutions, served as a crucible for the Romantic Movement's inception, based on an intrinsic association with freedom, stretching the limits of the imagination, rebellion against social and artistic constraints, and an emphasis on...