About Modern Romantic
We celebrate the spirit of Romanticism in many forms of art and literature. Our podcast dives into exploring the beauty of emotion, nature, and individualism. Each episode features diverse artists and romantics from around the globe, sharing their works and passions. From poets to painters, authors to dreamers, we bring you inspiring stories and insightful discussions that keep the essence of Romanticism alive. Join us on a journey to discover the extraordinary in the every day and the sublime in the simple.
Our story began years ago when Emily and Trey worked together at the same company. They loved bouncing silly ideas off each other and breaking into random songs. Naturally, they decided they were hilarious and should start a podcast. But, like many great ideas, it remained a dream because they had no clue how to begin.
Fast forward eight years, and no longer at that job, Emily and Trey found themselves in the middle of a pandemic. With the world feeling stressed and stretched thin, there was a clear need for art and romanticism. To bring a touch of beauty and meaning back into our lives, Emily created The Modern Romantic Podcast, inspired by the magazine she and Ambur Rose launched in 2020. Emily asked Trey to join as cohost, and the adventure began.
With the technical wizardry of our friend Joe Capone, we streamed and recorded our first episode live at the end of 2021 and published it in early 2022. Since then, every episode has been live-streamed and shared in the same way.
Our fantastic team now includes Sandra Sawyer, our Scheduling Manager and Producer, and Josh Maiolo, our chat moderator, tech helper, and cat wrangler. They keep everything running smoothly and help make the magic happen.
About Romanticism
Romanticism, an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.
Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general and a focus on his or her passions and inner struggles; a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era; and a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the darker places of the world.
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From Brittanica