Romanticism was a departure from what predominant style of the time?

A) Surrealism

B) Neoclassicism

C) Futurism

D) Industrialization

B) Neoclassicism

Explanation:

romanticism was created as an opposition to classicism.

B) Neoclassicism

Explanation:

Romanticism became a brief yet significant movement that also influenced philosophers, literature and the arts as artists broke with rational thinking and they left reason to convey strong emotions and seeking intense feelings in all audiences.

The Romantics did not regard the conventional standards of the neo-classics, instead, they rebelled against the taught values of that age.

The romantics emphasized emotion as a key component to the artworks and explored the inner part of human life regarding the emotional landscapes.

They also united against the aristocratic settings and the socio-political norms that came from the Enlightenment.

For them the rationalization of nature and life was an excess, they rather sought imagination, feeling as ways for freeing themselves and expressing more deeply in the canvas.

Romanticism was like any other movement spread from Visual arts and Music into works of literature, philosophy and politics, among others.