Romanticism is the conceptual school of art.
It deals, not with the random trivia of the day, but with the timeless, fundamental, universal problems and values of human existence. Art Email Discussion List Objective art is an email discussion list for people who enjoy romantic art. Romanticism refers to an art movement that dates back to the early 19th century. Amongst the writers of that period, its best representatives were Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky, and Edmond Rostand. The defining characteristic of romantic art is that Romantic art emphasizes man's power of volition , i.e. his power of free-will as the root of all his decisions, his actions, and thus his destiny.