What do you see on romance art?

Question

Hi! I have this assignment in art class. And I absolutely suck at art so help would be appreciated.
Basically my weird and hyperactive teacher wants me to explain what I feel and what I think of when I see art from the romance epoch. Just telling what you feel and think when you see it would help a ton! :)

Examples are these pictures:
https://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=antoine+wiertz&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1920&bih=955&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=2Ha6T5qPEJPb4QSw8ZizCQ

Answer 1

I'm just trying to help so i apologize if this answer is not what you're looking for..

To me, it seems that the darkness and colors of these pictures show that at that time, you weren't free to love. It was not seen as it is seen today. The women are like incrusted in the pictures, not free of themselves. I feel.. sadness and tiredness, as if they're sick of being seen as nothing. Each woman hides behind a curtain of uncertainty, wondering if her true love will come. They are not accepted and have no existence of their own. Love was triumphed by hate back then, and they asked themselves if that would ever change.

That's what i feel, but i have no idea what it is really ^^

Answer 2

Anton Wiertz is not who I think of when I think of Romantic Art. He was an important Belgian painter of the period. I can accept that. But his debt to Rubens and others of the Baroque includes aspects of pictorial space which is really quite different from contemporaries like Casper David Friedrich, John Constable or even Henry Fuseli or David. They are very theatrical as were the last two painters but lacked that obsessive materialism which was the Nineteenth Century's contribution to painting. I guess you can say Wiertz doesn't move me much.