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Transcendentalism and Romanticism
In the 1900’s, art growth through transcendentalism was a determinant on how people
lived, communicated and saw nature. This idea behind transcendentalism and romanticism
influenced art and architecture styles and designs and their evolvement and effects on the
people’s life, setup and transformation during these period of 1900’s.
There are two themes; romanticism and transcendentalism. Romanticism is the
primacy, subjectivity and inspiration of an individual to love nature and the divine.
Transcendentalism is based on the belief in essential unity of all creation, all innate goodness
of humanity, supremacy, logic and revelation for the deepest truth. Emergence of Eco Art in
the modern age when land and architecture grew together is an important allusion of
transcendentalism.
There are various examples of romantic ideas brought forth; Casper David Federich’s
“The Wanderer above Sea of Mist” (1817-1818) and Thomas Cole’s “The Oxbow” on
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1801-1848) are good examples. Another example is Paul
Cezanne’s “Mount Sainte-Victoire” (1902-1904au) which has realistic life colors and line and
plane painting structure tied in line with nature that, from a receding perspective, gives a
realistic point of view. Henri Rousseau’s “Sleeping Gypsy” (1897) has style of painting that
focused on dream and fantasy with the desert symbolizing silence and secrecy while the lion
symbolizes the uncomfortness a person might experience during sleep. Another perspective is
architecture. Architecture was revolutionized to elaborately bring out the purpose of a building
for instance, Eiffel Tower Construction of 1887. Another example is the guaranty building built
in New York in 1896 by Luis Henry. Henry introduced ornamenting on buildings with ample
sourcing of light and ventilation and other ornamental decorations.
In conclusion, the idea behind Transcendentalism and Romanticism helped fuel art
growth in the 1900’s especially on the way that people communicated, lived and saw nature.
