A desirable dating occasion occurs when both people have fun and recall the time spent together as memorable. One of the surest ways to ensure that happens is to have a romantic date. A romantic date can be planned, or it can just happen accidentally or by coincidence. In either case, there are some factors that must be present for magical and romantic moments to happen.

Among the factors needed for dating occasion to be romantic, are three that can be described as 'A' factors – ambience, activity and attraction – between two individuals who are dating.

Ambience is what creates the all important feature of mood. The mood, which is the overall environment and atmosphere of a location, has to be right for the time spent there to be considered romantic. The mood created by the ambience can propel what would be an average of ordinary date into one that becomes romantic. The mood is
therefore what helps to create sparks to make the time together feel special, magical and romantic.

Among the things that help to create the right ambience for romance are the lighting, music and an attractively decorated environment. Lighting that creates a romantic moment for a date is usually subdued. This can be in the form of controlled lighting with a switch to modulate it, or it can be from the use of candles. The presence of
candlelight is pretty much a must-have for romantic experiences while dating, if there is no controlled lighting.

Lighting by itself isn't enough to bring out the romance factor in a date. The right lighting has to be paired with the right type of music to truly be able to have an effect on the atmosphere and on the two individuals who are dating. While music tastes differ and vary, and musical melodies differ from one culture to another, romantic music usually also has a subdued quality. Music and lighting can therefore be seen as the twin factors that must be present to create a romantic date.

The right ambience for a romantic date is also enhanced by an attractive and pleasant environment. Simply stated, the place where individuals go on a date, where they plan to spend time and where they may hope to have romance in the air, must be clean and pleasant. This can be achieved with minimal decorations. The most important factor is that you and your date must feel comfortable and totally at ease, which will happen if you are in a pleasant surrounding.

Along with ambience, the activity to be engaged in during the date also will determine if the time on the date will be experienced or looked back on as a romantic one. Again, while different individuals will vary in the activities they choose for a dating experience, there are some that ware more conducive to creating romance.

Going out to dinner, or staying in at home for a dinner date is one of the most sure ways to get or set romantic fires alight during a date. It's unexplainable, but there is something about the combination of good food, good music and low lights or candle lights that can transform eating into a romantic affair.

And lastly, even with all the above-mentioned factors, time spent on a date will not be romantic unless the two individuals are attracted to each other. Romance happens when a touch, a glance or some other gesture cause that warm feeling to envelop the two individuals who are dating, and also happens to them simultaneously.

While certain factors can be present to enhance the creation of a romantic date, it can't be planned. If you have a date with some or all of the factors previously mentioned however, and if you are highly attracted to your date, you likely will share a memorable dating experience that just may turn out to be a very romantic one.

Though sometimes referred to as the “anti-classical” movement in art, Romanticism is a style that focuses on the artist’s individualistic and emotionally wrought point of view, and is found to oppose the art movement known as Neoclassicism. Even though there have been many artists to combine elements of both. Some of the more renowned names around this movement, which utilized strong emotion to convey meaning, were Francisco de Goya and William Blake respectively. This particular art form became a reaction to the outgrowth of reason by homing in on imagination and feeling.

It is not difficult to see the value in the paintings by these artists, and there have been many examples of how other artists have influenced one another over time. As the whole category of Romanticism refers more to the trends of artists, poets, and philosophers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries than as much to an artistic movement. Though one has definitely influenced the other and vice versa rather equally as time went along, there are very few areas in modern life that can be said to stay untouched by the Romantic period, and many agree that this was a vital point in the world’s development as a whole.

Where the people of the period at the time were involved in an overwhelming interest in things of a rational or enlightened nature, the Romantic ideal favored intuition instead, and has been the subject of many differing characterizations of the movement for intellectual and literary histories. There are many varying attitudes on how Romanticism has affected the modern world, and what place this movement has had in the greater picture of history. Some cite Romanticism as being the originating moment of modernity, while others seem to think that it is a beginning to a resistance to the enlightened age, and still others date the movement as a direct aftermath of the French Revolution that is completely continuous with the present.

Romanticism was previously mentioned as affecting music and literature as well as art, but this is less understated than it might seem at first, Romanticism is very prominent in the music and literature of this period. As the age moved along, more than a few critics have considered composers such as Mozart, Hadyn, and Beethoven as being the three Romantic composers. In literature all over the world, the Romanticism movement deeply affected every writer from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe through to even the 20th century’s Ayn Rand, and many more writers between those times when Romanticism was most prominent.

As it became apparent that Romanticism was going to stay a strong influence for many years to come, many critics have taken to confirming that the Romantic period has been elemental in the progress of art to the present day, and that there is almost no famed artist who has not been in part affected by these potent periods of artwork and creative purpose. This rebellion against social and political standards of the age was instrumental in the changing over from those same standards, and created a lush place from which to draw inspiration for the next centuries to come.

Romanticism has become a piece of history that cannot be overlooked for very long as every place that one can turn has somehow been affected by the progress from this one particular time period, though that is certain for many artistic movements that have been present throughout time, and seems to put more clout into the common statement of art imitating life and life imitating art. Neo-Romanticism worked itself out through artists’ reevaluation of the earlier works by those like William Blake, and especially in areas like Britain, creating a new underground of writers, artists, and composers.

Neo-Romanticists have been considered the contrast to naturalism as Romanticism was considered the opposite to Neoclassicism in its’ heyday because of the movement seems to stress feeling and internal observation, as opposed to the naturalistic tendency to stress external observation, and utilize historic rural landscapes to react to the modern world of machines and its’ urbanization. Post-romanticism is an outgrowth of passionate art that refers to a postmodern re-enactment of romantic themes and motifs in contemporary art up to today, and combines the best of traditional artwork with a more modern flair.

In regards to the 20th century turns that Romanticism has made, Romantic realism has evolved out of Romanticism to incorporate elements of themes of value while referring to objective reality and the importance of technique, and was popularized though not coined by the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. This lead to artists incorporating Romanticism and Realism, though they seemed more weighed to the Romanticist side of the equation, and is considered more as a branching of the Romanticism movement today.

Whether your dating is going to progress to being serious or not, whether love
will blossom from it or whether you are even dating more than one person, there is
always the desire for all dates to be memorable. That can happen by the location of the
date, the activity and the mood that you and your date are in.
When romantic sparks fly on a dinner date, it likely can lead to a simple
connection such as holding hands. That contact between you and your date is often a
signal of romance about to flare on a date. Romance can happen through a glance and
even a slight touch. But when there is touch or other longer physical connection the heat
and warmth that you and your date feel can then pass between you and become shared,
giving life to the chemistry or connection and magic that exists when you are in each
other's presence.
A dinner date is one of the common dating activities that often create memorable
dating experiences. Part of the reason for that is because you and your date can have a say
in going to a restaurant with wonderful d?cor and lighting, good food and good service.
All those factors must be present for the mood to be right and for the environment to feel
magically romantic for you and your date.
With subdued lighting and a pleasant ambience, it will seem as if even the food
tastes better. The combination of all those factors, along with the right background music
will put you and your date at ease and if you both are in the right frame of mind, you will
feel that magic of romance.
A connection and the resulting romantic feeling from holding hands on a date can
also occur while you are watching a movie and even during a non-activity such as
watching a beautiful sunset.
In a movie, the subject matter, scenes and dialog of the movie can be powerful in evoking
the reality of romance between two movie-goers. What happens then is that more than
just being entertaining, the movie actually makes the dating couple feel as if they are
transplanted into the scene and whatever is being experienced on the screen is also
happening to them, or, could actually occur.
Going on a walk together for a date can also cause romantic sparks. Maybe it's
the relaxing nature of the walk, or again, maybe it could be the always beautiful aspect of
nature and being surrounded by it, that enhances the presence of romance on such a date.
And if the walk involves a beautiful sunset, that also will evoke a very strong feeling of
romance.
Any of these dating experiences can also be made more memorable if you and
your date share a first, such as have a first kiss. You could also share a first experience
such as telling each other something very special, or confiding in each other by revealing
some very personal information.
Those first actions will mark a milestone in your dating and will be moments that
you will remember always with fondness and will also cherish. Whenever firsts are done
during dating, they represent small steps in the growth and development of the
relationship. So they are also small triumphs to celebrate the fact that your dating
experience is progressing on a positive path and that you and your date are having a good
time.
While you and your date can hope for and will even plan a romantic date, it often
happens coincidentally and sometimes when you least expect it. That's why it's
important that when you are together, you maintain a positive and upbeat mood so that if
the magic or romance should be in the air, you both will be ready and receptive to it, and
will have a memorable dating experience.