Natural And Natural Sublime

The architectural sublime combines in various manners the spatial sublime, with the cosmological sublime, as found either in response to the vast and awe inspiring scenes of nature or in the theological renditions of the cosmos1. Etienne- Louis Boullee’s Cenotaph for Newton can be considered a sublime work of architecture as it tries to communicate a cosmological truth, while giving the spectators a psychophysical sensation of expanding, reaching an artificial infinity. Boullee aimed to honor Isaac Newton for having discovered the single principle that regulated the workings of the universe – gravity – by burying his spirit “within his discovery” that is, within the cosmos.2

The Bourgeois society is represented in the top half of the painting; tall office towers line the city sky which is a dominating reminder to Americans of a chance for prosperity. The Statue of Liberty sits in the distance; Frida pushes the ideal of Western strength and freedom to the background, which realizes the possibility of American economic failure. The water is a dark grey, reflective of the dreary years of the depression era. A collection of six industrial smoke-pipes reach high from behind the commericialist towers of the city. They seem to acknowledge the defining role of lower class workers and industrial society in the prosperity of America.

First thing that I noticed about this gorgeous oil and tempera on panel painting was the precise emotional aspect: romantic and simple, yet so exceptionally lifelike. This work surely shows a development from the powerfully

Art is one aspect of the past that has carried on for decades. Art in any form may it be poetry, novels, and playwright, sculpting as well as painting, has been an outlet for generations and continues to be an outlet and a means for expression. This paper will discuss “ The Mona Lisa” one of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings, as well as another great painting, Antonio Veneziano’s

These clear, slick, and streamlined creations emphasize the parallel of natural beauty—industrial beauty, the magnificence of efficient, high functioning modernist art. Its element lies in prosperous mass production in the ageless advancing industry focused on efficiency, emphasizing and harmonizing with the repetitive drive for achievement displayed by Douglas. The combination of his juxtaposition with Gorges du Loup provides conceptual progression from the imagery of nature to the artistic appeal of mass production, adding sense in subtle connections in an exhibit riddled with countless different

The engulfing size of the painting (250.5 x 159.5 cm) drives the audiences mind into a hypnotic frenzy as they are overwhelmed by bright and sensual colours, which, have the ability to evoke deep emotions and realisations. Kandinsky has portrayed this through the disorientation of his own personal visions of society during the industrial revolution. The rough yet expressive outline of buildings, a rainbow and the sun gives reference to realism as it allows viewers to connect and understand underlying motifs and shapes yet is painted abstractly to move away from the oppressive and consumerist society. Thus, Kandinsky breaks boundaries through his innovative approach to his art-making practise concluded from his personal belief of ‘art for arts sake’. He believed that art should mainly convey the artist’s personal views and self-expressionism that translated a constant individuality throughout his work from an inner intentional emotive drive. This broke traditional boundaries as art in the renaissance period was meant to be a ‘narration’ or an artwork where an audience could learn and benefit from. This is evidently shown in Composition IV as it exemplifies Kandinsky’s inner feelings towards the industrialised society

Actually… he was not making a remark about the waterfall, but a remark about his own feelings” (Lewis 2). The authors out right say this man was expressing a feeling he was having, but Lewis disagrees. The first objection Lewis poses is that an object cannot be described with a feeling a person is having. Lewis says, “the man who says This is sublime cannot mean I have sublime feelings. Even if it were granted that such qualities as sublimity were simply and solely projected into things from our own emotions which prompt the projection are the correlatives” (Lewis 3).

: he was almost ready to adore himself; till, lifting his eyes upward, he saw the stars as high above him as they appeared when he stood on the surface of the earth”p5Vathek is disappointed with the idea that there is a higher place beyond his reach, that is of the seventh heaven where Allah and his prophet are looking down at him without his knowledge. Moreover, the entanglement of the sublime and the terror can be noticed, for example, in the adjective superb in a sentence like: “At noon, a superb corps of cripples made its appearance….”.p.49 and

The artist Willy Nus displays the sublime in his painting Transporting Large Heated Workpiece, which he completed in 1910 (Türk, 2003, p. 196). Nus’ work shows several men pushing and pulling a cart on rails carrying a hot steam workpiece from inside the preheater unit. The painting’s emphasis is on the hot glowing steel workpiece and the open furnace, both of which illuminate the workers as well as most of the background. The workpiece’s terminus is the forge hammer, which appears to be steam-powered because it creates large clouds of steam that fill in a portion of the background. Also, the sublime is artistically depicted by the German artist Leonhard Sandrock in his work At the Forge (Türk, 2003, p. 195). The painting shows men using a forging press that is capable of producing workpieces that weigh anywhere from five to fifteen tons. The forge press is reducing the size of a large, smoldering, glowing workpiece. The workpiece is being held off the ground by two chain loops that are attached to pulleys, which are supported by two service cranes (Türk, 2003, p. 195). The painting’s emphasis is directed to the glowing workpiece by the workpiece being brighter than its immediate surroundings, which creates contrast and draws the viewer’s attention to

Though there are plenty of works that I could have chosen to write about, I will stick to what I know best…Star Wars. I am just kidding, but I do love Star Wars. Interstellar is really a beautiful piece of work by Christopher Nolan. Per Longinus, the first component of the sublime is the great idea. The great idea is that they are sending the best pilot in the world to travel through space in search of potentially habitable planets. That is cool and all but if you think about it, Interstellar without great acting and a few plot twists would essentially be entirely too scientific, borderline documentary. That is why Longinus’ second component of the sublime is the emotional appeal that drives the great idea into the hearts of the viewers. That

The sublime is a feature present in many art works. It is an aesthetics category that, unlike other categories such as beauty or the picturesque, examines great and awe-inspiring phenomena. The sublime is an aesthetic notion that describes the emotions of awe that people experience when they encounter the immense, powerful, and even terrifying forces of the natural world. Like all aesthetic notions, the sublime produces various emotions with the persons viewing a piece of art.

This paper will be a study on La Belle Dame Sans Meri. This painting is an oil sketch for Waterhouse painting exhibit at the royal Academy in 1893 and now in the Hessisches Landes Museum, Darmstadt, Germany. John William Waterhouse was a man of very many talents. He was able to apply a natural setting. His art work is one of a kind and beautiful. He applies a combina favorite artists. The piece of work that I will be discussing is La Belle Dame Sans Merci.

The subject matter of Rain, Steam and Speed is the Maidenhead railway crossing of the Thames. A golden brown landscape punctuated by the river to the left takes up the bottom portion of the painting. The top half is tinged by a blue sky that is marked by swirls of gold and white,

The Large Bathers, 1898-1905 is the largest of Paul Cezanne's pictures and has been cited as an example of his ideal of composition and his restoration of classic monumentality after its lapse during the nineteenth century. Cézanne’s great achievement forced the young Picasso, Matisse, and many other artists to contend with the implications of Cézanne’s art. This essay will discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are considered as inspired by and breaking free of The Large Bathers.

The readings of Immanuel Kant’s “Observations of Enjoyment” and Ralph Emerson’s pieces titled “Art “ and “ Circles” displayed a kind of similarity between the two very different writers. Throughout my essay you will see just how they are similar and what one would possible think of the others ideas. You see no ideas are necessarily right or wrong ultimately like in life people do not always agree In “Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime” section one by Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant begins with discussing the idea that feeling happy or sad does not come from the nature of external things but more of what a person’s ability to let things make them feel pleasure of pain. He stresses that all people are different. Something that may make someone feel upset can make another happy. Kant then continues to talk about the feeling of the sublime and beautiful. He uses examples to display his opinions. First he begins to talk about the sight of mountains along with raging storms in which beautiful things enjoyment can be seen as well as horror. On the other hand we can look at grazing flocks and Homers portrayal of the girdle of Venus. Kant sees those through as a pleasant sensation with joy and smiling. You can see that the difference is that certain beautiful situations can be seen as horror. Kant says that sublime must always be great. It must be simple but the beautiful can be adorned and ornamented. From the reading I can conclude that Kant strived to get his