In class today we discussed romanticism. It’s formed from many ideals that are not of the current time and place. From fantasizing about an idea that is far off and more of a dream than a reality to visually including exotica in European paintings. Dream-like ideas were used for propaganda in some cases, for example, Napoleon’s conquests were documented, appealing to the Pashto son those bad in France seeing a hero off helping and conceding in a foreign land. The paints are not based on fact but on an idea that you want to believe. This brings the saying ignorance is bliss to mind. The romantic idea can also be applied to history, as gothic architecture was used in the reconstruction of British parliament buildings. This was not a forging stile geographical but from the past… therefore making the architecture foreign. A combination of this idea comes in the form of the Royal Pavilion, a building in Britain that draws inspiration from the Taj Mahal but in essence does not look like the Taj. It just takes some features and uses them to conquer the idea of the Taj it does not recreate the Taj. Romanticism makes you feel for something. It doesn’t show what’s there.