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Romanticism was considered to be a historic attitude towards art and life that began in the late 18th Century. The term Romantic was coined by the English in the 17th Century. It wasn’t until the end of the 18th Century that the term was applied to literature that dealt with a fantasy nature. It wasn’t used to define the 19th Century until the French began to classify and compare artist’s works with other periods and separated them into what we now call Romanticism. Romanticism didn’t follow Neo-Classicism as much as some of the other movements did. Instead there was a slow change during the begging of the 19th Century. Eclecticism would be a better term to describe work of the 19th Century. Eclecticism wasn’t a burst of new ideas but a mix of them which were taken from various sources. According to Eclectic philosophy there were only good and bad artists, not Classical or Romantic. By the middle of the Realists began to criticize Eclecticism as being superficial, false and lacking in originality. A French Novelist Gustave Flaubert is quoted saying “Let us be savage!
Approximate Word count = 725
Approximate Pages = 2.9
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