Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Romanticism legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.
classicism, there was a fundamental emphasis on freedom of self expression, sincerity, spontaneity and originality from the artist. With classism, they did not felt free or themselves; just mere copies of society.
