ABSTRACT
The Romantic preoccupation with the lone figure in the landscape is frequently found in Caspar David Friedrich's work. This Romantic motif is also discernible in many of paintings executed during the Second World War. For the duration of the Second World War the Ministry of Information supported over 1400 official films. Listen to Britain was one such sponsored documentary depicting everyday events in Britain during wartime. The exhibition of the Neo-Romantics' work, and the public circulation of their style was made possible through a number of routes. The abhorrence and anxiety experienced by population at war was translated through the use of Romantic and Sublime vocabulary in painting, but the Neo-Romantic style did not only occur through this medium; these traits are also apparent in cinematic releases of the period. Minton's paintings owe a debt to his nineteenth-century predecessor, Samuel Palmer, whose work had been reproduced in Horizon magazine in 1941, suggesting a nostalgic and timely revival of Romantic traditions.
