Labels:bulletin board | poster | reckoner | sky | vegetarianism OCR: The first half of the 19th century one of the most harmonious periods in the history of Russian culture This is wher the Romantic outlook emerges public life philosophy. literature and fine art. Romanticism proclaimed the idea of self- realisation in creation. Man tests his abilities in different areas painters design churches architects paint pictures poets compose music generals and senators become poets The understanding of art as an act free creation gave birth to the notion that the artist was an exceptional personality genius who followed when Jiterature