Art as an emotion...?

"The Enlightenment of the 18th Century was the Age of Reason. Emotions and faith were put on the back burner, while people sought answers to all of life’s mysteries through science, math and logic. By second of half of the 18th Century, when the Enlightenment was in full force, many people began rejecting the idea of basing everything on reason and sought a return to emotions and feelings. This return to emotion would be known as the Romantic Movement.."

The romantic movement originated in western europe and made a huge impact on other countries. The romantic movement would take the reader, watcher or listener from a place of logic to a place of emotion;

http://weuropeanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_romantic_movement#ixzz0ie0M97ec

-Tamika