romanticist
Emotion over reason
A romanticist is someone who embraces romantic ideals—either the artistic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with its emphasis on emotion, nature, and individualism, or a romantic outlook on life generally.
The term often contrasts with realist or classicist: As a romanticist, she believed passion should guide art, not rules.
French Romantic painter
- TurnerOne operating a lathe
- GoyaHispanic food brand
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
canvas · portraiture · historicism · nationalism · folklore · mythology · neoclassicism · salon
Imaginative mental wandering
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
visionary · whimsy · fable · enchantment · storybook · legend · fairyland · mythos
Intense emotional drive
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
melancholy · tenderness · devotion · infatuation · fervor · desire · wistfulness · nostalgia
Reverent fear and wonder
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- grandeurImpressive splendor and scale
- vastnessState of being immense
- majestyImpressive supreme dignity
infinity · nature · wilderness · magnificence · wonder · splendor · ethereal · exaltation
Impractically perfect in conception
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- hopefulFeeling positive expectation
- aspirationalStriving toward ideals
- optimistHabitually hopeful person
naive · transcendentalist · perfectionist · altruist · purist · innocent · unrealistic · impractical
Delacroix
French Romantic painter
brushwork · canvas · portraiture · historicism · nationalism · folklore · mythology · neoclassicism · salon · patronage
fantasy
Imaginative mental wandering
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
escapism · visionary · whimsy · fable · enchantment · storybook · legend · fairyland · mythos · utopia
passion
Intense emotional drive
sentimentality · melancholy · tenderness · devotion · infatuation · fervor · desire · wistfulness · nostalgia · sensitivity
awe
Reverent fear and wonder
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- grandeurImpressive splendor and scale
- vastnessState of being immense
majesty · infinity · nature · wilderness · magnificence · wonder · splendor · ethereal · exaltation · picturesque
utopian
Impractically perfect in conception
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- hopefulFeeling positive expectation
- aspirationalStriving toward ideals
optimist · naive · transcendentalist · perfectionist · altruist · purist · innocent · unrealistic · impractical · starry-eyed
- literary scholarsscholar, critic, literary critics, professor, philologists
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
romanticistclassicist
Scholar of antiquity
neoclassicist · rationalist · formalist · naturalist · modernist
romanticistrealist
One accepting hard truths
pragmatist · cynic · empiricist · hardnose · pessimist