>>7992633Early european 19th century paintings is the most boring and flatout technically uninspired anti-revolutionary artistic movement. It's just bad idealistic / romantic shit or boring naturalistic landscape with zero interest compared to say even Poussin or, God Forbid, masters like Canaletto.
Terrible backwards century that tries to go back to some idealized past, especially the English, going from Turner to the pre-rafaelite stuff, terrible. Hopefully the end of this century redeemed it.
It's utterly ridiculous how the early 19th century is supposed to hold anything against the Venetian school, 17th century Spanish school, Dutch golden age, école de Fontainebleau, etc... Subject, colour, composition, representation, technicality, the 19th century is basically backwards in all aspect.
