The first exhibit in Korea to present the paintings
from the Romantic period of the 18th-19th century  

An academic exhibition that sheds light on the essence of Romanticism

In England during the 18th-19th century, the main economy stream was transformed rapidly from an agrarian society to an industrial society, and its consequence put many philosophers and artists into confusion. They gathered to ponder upon the conflicts from the economic change and initiated the Romanticism movement to find its pure meaning and to develop its application to art. 
 

Content

• Section 1. Pure landscape subjects and Nature

 

• Section 2. Marines, Rivers, Lakes, and Coastal subjects 

Sea was not only the source of nature but also the source of inspiration for many artists. It appeared mysterious, sublime, and sometimes ominous with its violent power. Artists looked at the subject from different angles and tried to capture its various characteristics on the landscapes. 
 

• Section 3. Pastoral Scenery - landscapes with laborers and animals 

Behind the ordinary scenes of people and animals farming together, the landscapes also depict the hardship of the low-class people who were disadvantaged from industrialization and had to continue the hard labor works to make living.
 

• Section 4. Ordinary Landscapes 

From the 19th century, British art was liberated from biblical subjects. The artists finally found freedom in choosing subjects. Many painters naturally practiced landscapes to depict ordinary people's daily lives.
 

• Section 5. New Landscapes with Travellers and Architecture 

After the 20-year long Napoleonic Wars, British painters began to travel around the European continent and found inspiration regionally to practice landscapes. What interested them most was the newly industrialized cityscapes and changed bucolic sceneries or antique architectures that were not, yet, destructed by industrialization. 
 

• Section 6. French Impressionism - Active Cultural Exchange between England and France 

In 1850, Paris was the center of European Art without a question. Impressionism and other new aesthetic movements were also brought to England. Around the 1880s, French painters created diverse types of bucolic landscapes by incorporating the traditional British landscape painting methods with the French impressionist style.