Instead, this person seeks them out. To romantics, they are prisons. Some romantics try to smother inner voices by creating things or escaping into addictions. Others become crusaders, obsessed with sublimity, beauty and an abstract passion for good. In Summer 1994, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe mounted an exhibition bringing masterworks to the Museum.
Much art produced in New Mexico follows the romantic tradition.
At mid-century, Transcendentalism was important here, with Raymond Jonson leading it. Also, Georgia O'Keeffe caused romantic modernism to become the most popular aesthetic in New Mexico. The paintings gave us fleeting evidence of that search. This is the energy of life, its pulse, its sound. The exhibit began not with the work of Jos.