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The Head & Heart: A Civil War A famous war exists, not between two people, two countries, or two nations, but a war between two armies of idealists. The classicists, embodied by the Enlightenment, as well as the Romantics shared the same dissatisfaction with the world but had very different ideas about how to overcome it (Canaday 6). This age old conflict between the head and the heart is, undeniably, what led these two artistic periods into irreconcilable differences. It is because of these differences that some of the most beautiful works of art we know today were produced. Romanticists embraced style, attitude and spiritualism in order to transform the predictable Enlightenment ideals into the passion that the Romantics held true to. The artistic style of the Romantic Period is that of dramatic darks and brilliant light sources. Foggy landscapes and turbulent weather are some of the favorite subjects and are done with aggressive brush strokes, asymmetrical composition, and strong diagonals.
Approximate Word count = 572
Approximate Pages = 2.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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