Formalism vs Romanticism

In the world today, they’re several different ways that people view art. Art can be viewed in formalism or romanticism. Formalism view of art is to represent the forms or ideas that structure reality and guide our behavior. Romanticism view of art isn’t rational elements but should be expressed in nonrational emotions. Therefore, I believe that Romanticism is more plausible.

  

-       Explanatory Breadth – Romanticism has more explanatory breadth because it has more meaning to art and people can express more emotions, rather than just staring at the painting with no emotions (formalism). Everyone has their form of expression to that leads to different interpretation of emotions and formalism neglects that emotion.

-       Explanatory Depth – Romanticism has more explanatory depth because romanticism has more emotion and more realization. Making art more emotional has more significant which formalism doesn’t have the connection to the people how romanticism have.

-       Simplicity – I feel that Formalism has more simplicity than romanticism because formalism does not have to address emotion and expresses art in a formal way. Therefore formalism has more simplicity than romanticism.

-       Conservatism- Romanticism has more conservatism with our common sense belief than formalism. In life there are more emotions put into our everyday life and touches people differently. Formalism art is free drawing that has no meaning or emotions in which people can not connect to it.

1.     Formalism and Romanticism are most plausible cause of art.

2.     Romanticism has more explanatory depth, breadth and conservatism than Formalism; but formalism has more simplicity than romanticism.

3.     Therefore Romanticism is the best plausible cause of art.