Romanticism is a reaction to neoclassicism, it is an art of feeling, torn and lively, full of strength and freedom. Artists claim free creation without being subject to standards; passion is expressed through violence, unbridled movement seeks. Reason, predominant in neoclassicism, is now opposed to feeling and is therefore an individualistic style. The theme also changes, inspired by the night, ruins, wild nature, madness, death, tombs, tragedies. Freedom and patriotism, nostalgia and desperation are exalted. Technically it highlights the strength of color in powerful contrasts, captured and unbalanced postures, gestures and chiaroscuro conventions. Despite all the points of disagreement between Neoclassical and Romantic, there is one painter that everyone admires and imitates, a great among the greats whose works were ahead of their time and serve as timeless icons and whose art inspired many subsequent styles, this genius of the course is none other than Francisco De Goya considered a precursor of modern art, implemented in colorful and light-filled compositions. In 1819, at the Paris Salon, among the carefully curated and exquisite neoclassical works brought together in this exhibition, Gericault presented The Raft of the Medusa, in which a new emotional and trembling style that uses color as a the main pictorial element. A new fury, a spiritual fire that folds and the balance is noted above. Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) is the patriarch of romanticism. His art was formed in contact with Flemish, Italian and English painting from the Louvre. It draws its themes from ancient legends or romantic literature. You begin to develop romantic works from 1823 such as Liberty Leading the People, 1830, a work that...... middle of paper ......describes historical passages in the medieval history of each particular country. of music, in the first period of romanticism Schubert and Beethoven appear, whose masterpiece is the Ninth Symphony. In the second period highlights the composers of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Chopin, and in the third period of Romanticism Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner (The Ring of the Nibelung) excel which maintains the Romantic style in a post-romantic era considered from its position in time . Finally we can realize the importance of this genre. The connection you have with the Initiation of Realism. This movement to develop what the human intellect, values, intuition, emotion and imagination. This movement was inspired by the Middle Ages, the Baroque, the Middle and Far East. Implement colors with rich nuances and depth, as well as contrasting highlights and shadows. An important movement even today .