Effects of romanticism on avantgarde art

As of the second half of the 18th century, Romanticism, which began to be seen in almost all arts, especially in poetry and literature, continued its existence for nearly a hundred years. Romanticism, which started on the basis of poetry and literature, has been extremely influential in the field of plastic arts. Beyond an art movement, it separates from the previ-ous and subsequent art movements (from the ism's) as a thought and worldview (weltan-schauung). For this reason, Romanticism includes a production process in which there is intense intellectual activity that can not be reduced to movement-countermovement (to Romanticism against Classicism). In the emergence of Romanticism, Germany, especially the FrühRomantiks, became very influential. Concepts such as 'Gesamtkunstwerk', freedom, game therapy (spieltrieb), romantic poetry etc. which were revealed in this intensive pro-duction process, influenced 20th century thinkers and artists. Especially with Romanti-cism, art has given its signals that it may become an idea, something else than it was then. Hegel's 'death of art' thesis for Romanticism has been important in this respect. As art begins to secularize with Romanticism, the relationship between form and content is broken. In the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and William Turner the traces of this secularization are found. All of this is the heritage of 20th century Avant-garde artists from romantics. With the rise of representation, art has now discovered its own truth. Romanticism continued to live spiritually in the 20th century, even after the end of its physical existence. In this thesis, Romanticism Avant-garde relation will be examined in the context of intellectual and plastic arts.