KPDS 1998-1 Soru=98

The writer explains that the most distinctive characteristic of Romanticism is ____ .

Romanticism is a term for a movement in the arts, that is,
in music, painting, sculpture or literature, which seeks to
give expression to the artist's feelings about his subject
rather than to be concerned with form and reality. The
romantic view is that art is nature seen through a
temperament; the realist view, on the other hand, is that
art is a slice of life. In painting Delacroix (1789-1863) is the
romantic artist par excellence with his uncontrolled
expression of the passions and love of the exotic. In
literature the Romantic movement reached its finest form
in the works of Goethe, Schiller and Heine; in the poetry of
Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Shelly and Blake; and in the
writings of Victor Hugo. Since Romanticism is partly a
matter of temperament in the artist just as Classicism is, it
may be found at all times and places, although whether or
not it becomes predominant depends on contemporary
taste.