The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the late Seventeenth and Eighteenth century. It was a time heavily influenced by philosophers like Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. This era emphasized reason and the idea of individualism, rather than tradition. This large movement in culture and thought influenced many things from the way people thought about the natural world to even the way people view things such as art. Art is created for the purpose to appeal to, inform, or to influence human emotions.
