Dr. Heather McPherson
ARH 204
10/30/17
The Great Day of His Wrath
During the 19th – century, art evolved into the movement know as Romanticism. The Romanticism movement influenced a determination to achieve freedoms of worship, speech, and feeling. The Romantics sought to express these new found freedoms through imaginative and emotional artworks. A primary element of the Romanticism period was the increased interest in the sublime. The sublime was a product of the dark middle ages, where artists combined this imagination to create nightmarish and sadistic imagery. The artist, John Martin, used this period of subjective emotion to produce apocalyptic biblical paintings. One of his famous works known as, The Great Day of His Wrath,