Retro-romantic approaches in contemporary art within post-modernist course

After the domination of the postmodern, pluralist discourses, it?s a common fact that a contemporary artwork finds its inspirational bases on art history itself. Whilst it?s often concerned with postmodern strategies like parody and pastiche, the situation also brings up a re-view. One of the attitudes, which has encountered the contemporary art, is the characterization of neo-romantic for various art practices. This depiction, frequently undertakes an attempt to illustrate a re-look to historical romanticism. In order to analyse what ?Romanticism?, -which has been mentioned since the late 18. Century- connotes in the contemporary, several analogies can be established between the epoch?s characteristics and the contemporary. Romanticism, which has been emerged after the Enlightment and on the verge of Industrial Revolution, carries out a pre-avatgardist interpretation of Modernism as well as concerning the first criticisim of it. Romantic approaches can be studied in a varied spectrum from the conservatist and reconstructive tendencies to the reformist and utopist bias. Concerning the contemporary culture, it?s possible to study similar tendencies in the social discontents in response to globalization. A re-orientation towards Romanticism has been denoted in the mid-90?s, particularly for the painting medium, however this terminology sometimes brought up denunciations of anachronism. This attitudes involved, have become legitimized by detaching themselves from such arguments and have become practices that discuss notions such as 18th century?s romantic vision of nature, flaneur and dandy in contemporary means. Concerning the 21st century, romantic approaches, which have been mentioned more and more, conjoined themselves with distresses of the globalism and a re-utopist disclosure against the neo-liberal system. Art practices, in the scope of these issues, carries out the tendency to discuss the possibility of functional utopias.