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| | Romantic Realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Even such a quintessential romantic as Delacroix, when hailed as the "Victor Hugo of painting," could retort, "Sir, I am a pure classicist!" Nevertheless, one attribute of romanticism is unchanging: a romantic (whether in art or in life) is one who love emotions. |
 | | Like his nineteenth century forbearers, today's romantic uses form (the physical presentation) to communicate content (human values) through individual style (emotional expression), thereby making the means and the end merge, blend and re-emerge as one totality of experience that unifies mind, body, and soul. |
 | | Romantic Realists do not deny and may even dramatize human struggle, suffering or absurdity, but if they choose to explore the underbelly of life, the best of them do so with a higher purpose. |
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