Essays on Etchings

Romanticism. Introduction. As many got tired of regularity and rationality of Classicism, people of art started to try to find a way to express their emotions and attitudes through methods more free from canons. They found such possibility in Romanticism. Romanticism replaces the Age of Enlightenment, and coincided with the industrial revolution, that was marked by the advent of the steam engine, locomotive, ship, photos, and factory suburbs. While education was characterized by the cult of reason, and was based on its principles of civilization, romanticism advocated the cult of nature, senses and all the natural in man. It ...

The inventive mechanism which complements the imagination and the will is what the Capricho refers to his artworks. They have irrational unsystematic and psychological and most important are not bound to the rules of art. Nonetheless, there is detrimental impulse that produces defective results. Capricho dictates that the defective natures of his arts are a mental form created by illusion. Both the idea and the image are independent as a result of sense perception and intellect. It is the motivating concepts that refer to artistic principles of design. Capricho also stimulates erraticism in his works of art. For instance, ...

Collaboration and Collectivity have become central methods of advancing contemporary art. Artists associations, groups, networks, partnerships, and coalitions are terms often mentioned in light of contemporary art. As such, collaboration and collectivity become generic names used when an artist chooses not to work alone, but to come together and co-work with other artists. The collaboration may also entail an artist cooperating with members of a certain community as they all work to realize the objectives of a given project. The slight difference between cooperation and participation comes in the extent of the controls between the parties involved. The collaboration ...