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THE
ROMANTIC EYE
 Though
the actual term ‘romantic’ was
not used in its present day connotation until the end
of the 18th century and the development of the Romantic
Movement, artists both before and after that specific
time frame have shared
a similar intensity of feeling and sensibility towards
Nature, their emotions
and imaginations equally stirred by myth and legend and ‘oriental’ trappings.
An erstwhile romanticism, as a later neo-romanticism,
is revealed in an artist’s choice of theme and
attitude to his subject.
The prints offered in this catalogue range in their
production from the 17th to the 21st centuries. In nationality
the artists are American, Australian, Austrian, British,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
Swiss and an anonymous Japanese.
The
catalogue is ordered by theme.
The
picturesque remains of fragmented Roman antiquity,
their counterparts in gothic ruins in England, both
expressions of the poignant passing of time, of lost
glories and a related feeling of melancholy.
 Old
European cities dominated by the still functioning
gothic architecture of cathedral and palace.
Images
of an urban industrial heritage. London and the waterway
of the Thames, when still a working river, busy with
ships and barges and the trade of Empire.
The
inspiration of music, poetry, dreams and memory.
Children.
Even
a cat.
Above
all, landscape. The beauty and drama of wild nature,
trees; the inherent nostalgia of the disappearing pastoral
landscape; landscapes with lovers.
Many of the prints are concerned with tonality, abounding
in rich and juicy blacks, contrasted with white and complemented
by a range of silvery greys.
Throughout
a unifying underlying theme of light. Sunlight yes,
and sun on water. Most expressively, twilight, moonlight,
lamplight.
Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too
is romance.
Published
summer 2010
52 pages, 107 items, with 96 illustrated in black and white and 11 in colour.
(UK
Price: £10, International orders: £15)
Prints
still available
Selection(s)
(ultimately four selections) of prints still available
from The Romantic Eye can be seen in the Selections section
of the website.
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Banks
H
- Bléry
E
- Boissieu
J J de
- Bone
M
- Bronchorst
J G van
- Bruycker
J de
- Buhot
F
- Busse
G H
- Cameron
D Y
- Carpanini
D
- Castiglione
G B
- Coney
J
- Constable
J
- Cope
C W
- Cotman
J S
- Cowern
R T
- Detmold
E J
- Dolby
J T
- Dorner
J J
- Dupré J
- Fantin-Latour
H
- Figura
H
- Flax
Z
- Frisius
S W
- Fürstová M
- Gaskell
G P
- Gerrits
H
- Gessner
S
- Gorlato
B
- Griggs
F L
- Haden
F S
- Hartley
A
- Hayter
G
- Hoyton
E Bouverie
- Ilsted
P
- Japanese
Poem Slip
- Lee-Hankey
W
- Legros
A
- Lewis
M
- Ligozzi
J
- Lucas
D
- Marriott
E
- Martyn
E K
- McBurnie
R
- Menpes
M
- Mortimer
J H
- Nathe
C
- Nevinson
C R W
- Osborne
M
- Patterson
E L
- Piranesi
G B
- Renton
M
- Rohlfs
C
- Rosenberg
L C
- Ruisdael
J van
- Rushbury
H
- Sadeler
A
- Schmutzer
F
- Seifert
D
- Short
F
- Sickert
W
- Smith
R Shirley
- Squirrell
L R
- Sutherland
G
- Tanner
R
- Todd
R M
- Tunnicliffe
C F
- Turner
J M W
- Vinckboons
D
- Vogeler
H
- Wells
W F
- Wyllie
W L
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