The Meaning Of Modern Art By Terrence Malild

For years, the Native Americans lived a very solitary life with their own unique way of living, that was until the European’s showed up with their very complex way of living. Harmony with nature was a very important aspect of Native American culture. The Native people embraced nature with no intention to modify it unlike the Europeans. They simply cared more about nature and what it had to offer. The spiritual connection between the land and these Natives were distinctive from the Europeans also due to the fact that to the settlers, land meant wealth. As a European, if you owned any land you were considered a wealthy upper class human being. As a Native, no one owned the land and anyone could benefit from the land.

‘The sheer popularity’ of stimulating nature or using nature as ad space ‘demands that we acknowledge, even respect, their cultural importance,’ suggests Richtel. Culturally important, yes. But the logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of ‘true’ nature— the certainty that it’s not even worth looking at. (Louv lines 9-19)

He personifies nature as a human being by giving him the ability to hug and give warmth to others. He also says that people should have no worries in him because the beauty of nature is not the temporary happiness of sadness that life brings you, but the ability to breathe in air. The ability to stand up and walk. Nature has the ability to bring the best out of the worst. The narrator also says that people can truly see nature when they are isolated from society due to the fact that they can think take their time to analyze

Humans have often struggled to define their relationship with nature throughout history. In the early periods of their existence, humans were ruled by the brutality of untamed nature. They utilized nature to an extent of survival, but had not yet developed a system to thrive within it. As humans advanced, both mentally and technologically, their aptitude and desire to exploit nature increased dramatically. These two polar relationships between humans and nature are mirrored in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest. In The Tempest, Shakespeare fixates on Caliban’s attachment to nature and Prospero’s exploitation of it, while in A Tempest, Césaire employs nature as the dividing force between Caliban and Prospero. These two separate themes both represent the consequences that occurred throughout history as a result of two ideologies about nature colliding during colonization.

The nature imagery used expresses the flaws of Puritan thought and anxieties towards outside forces, both seen and unseen. Through his use of nature imagery and diction, the reader obtains a better understanding of such Puritan anxiety within the community as they try to maintain their utopian society from collapsing to these supernatural forces caused by an irritated and vengeful Devil.

Terrence Malick’s film The New World acts as a historical fiction account of the start of Jamestown. Although this is based on real events, Malick took some liberties, including his use of nature in relation to culture. While both cultures adapt to the nature around them, the Native Americans in Malick’s film work with nature while the Anglo-Americans try to control it.

(Crane 21). The author outlines the stark contrast between the thoughts of man and those of nature. Additionally,

Though humans often boast of their inability to be swayed or persuaded against a belief, they are easily malleable. The external environment plays a major role in the impressionable human perception. An individual’s view on certain aspects of their external environment, notably nature and its species, relies largely on publications and visual depictions. Through reflecting upon the concept of anthropomorphism, artists’ depictions of nature, and the common motif of nature and animals in the plays of William Shakespeare, it is evident that a person’s view of nature can be largely influenced by art and literature. Moreover, an individual can learn to identify with nature on a personal and emotional level.

As the story develops, it’s easily noticed how nature in this period of time is pure and beginning to change due to mankind. As an illustration, how the story explains “Home lay some three miles distant, across a copse, a meadow, and a piece of woods,--the woods being a fringe on the skirts of the great forests that stretch far away into the North”(1). This leaving very clear that where nature ran freely and owned all territory humans came and constructed homes using nature itself. Notably including, “That home was one of a dozen log-houses lying a few furlongs apart from each other, with their half-cleared demesnes separating them at the rear from a wilderness untrodden save by stealthy native or deadly panther tribes”(1). Which is the most compelling evidence on how humans came and disrupted nature’s world.

The first artists that shows u show art can connect nature with humans is Theo Jansen. Jansen has made these exotic and giant sculptures called Strandbeests. The Strandbeests also known as “beach animals” are made of PVC pipes that gives the animal the ability to stand. They work in multiple places such as soft places and places with sand. The difference is that in soft places they need a special drive system that use pressed to move the Strandbeest and in places with sand they use the wind to give them motion to work. As Jansen states in his interview, “And so over the years, the generations became better and better at surviving the storms and the sand and the water on the beach and that connect the Strandbeests as a product of development in nature, getting different kinds of adaptation as human does and showing aspects related to human reproduction, Through the beests, Jansen connects beest’s reproduction with human reproduction, therefore nature.

Qualities of "reality," the divine, or divinities may be reflected in nature in Romanticism and we can sense God or the gods through our sensing of nature.While in Neo_classicism there is a concern for "nature"--or the way things are (and should be). This relates back to the distrust of innovation and inherent conservatism of neoclassicism. The artistic rules of old, for instance, Pope describes as having been "discovered, not devised" and are "Nature methodized"; so too, "Nature and Homer" are "the same" (Essay on Criticism 88ff., 135). This belief in "nature" implies a conviction that there is a permanent, universal way things are (and should be), which obviously entails fundamental political and ethical commitments. The focus on natural feeling over conventional rules led to an emphasis on the self over the earlier neoclassical emphasis on society. The individual becomes the source of wisdom and morality, displacing the received set of rules and norms given by society. As a result, emphasis is paced on understanding the individual's subjective state, especially as it relates to the outside world. Works ranging from Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of a Solitary Walker to Wordsworth's Prelude, Coleridge's «conversation» poems, «Dejection», «Frost at Midnight», «Lime Tree Beauty» are examples of the romantic exploration

Nature is merely our instrument of conquering one another. By manipulating what already exists, we create everything from nuclear warheads to high speed internet. The continuous competition between men feeds off of our technological advancement—none of which would be possible without the resources Nature provides for us. And rather than being grateful for the unequivicable power so generously offered us by our environment, we instead mock its existence. We distract from the cunningness and cruelty of our efforts toward mankind by relabeling our target ‘Nature’ rather than ‘each other’. By convincing ourselves we are somehow beginning to have Nature within our control and understanding, we forget that Nature is really only the means, not the end of our conquest. We will not be satisfied until we have defeated ourselves. As Lewis puts it, “Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. The battle will then be won… But who, precisely, will have won it?” (The Abolition of Man, 421)

In North America, the classic voice of the colonizing person’s connectedness to nature and a has been the romantic individualist writing of wilderness.

Nature being a refuge can be interpreted in many different ways. One of the interpretations is seeing where civilization and the frontier meet. In the film, “The Last of the Mohicans”, the Cameron family lives in between two worlds, the world of civilization and the frontier that the Indians call home. This family lives in harmony of both worlds, having the pleasures of civilization as well as the struggles of the frontier. For example, the Cameron family is able to have a log cabin to live in and plates; a pleasure of the civilized world. On the other hand, the Cameron family -living on the frontier- struggles with the outside dangers such as attacks from enemy Indians in war parties. While the Cameron family lives in both of these words, more often than not does nature reclaim what civilization once had.

When God created humankind and nature, he intended them to be connected to each other. “God’s Grandeur”, a poem written in 1877 by Gerard Manley Hopkins depicts the interconnection between the natural world and humankind. The poem describes the beauty of God’s creation and how humankind tends to dismiss the fact that the world is a beautiful place. Hopkins formats the poem as a fourteen line sonnet where a problem is introduced in the first eight lines and a solution to the problem in the last 6 lines. Hopkins uses describing words like “greatness” and “grandeur” to describe creation which help readers visualize the value and praise he has for the creator. The poet perceives humankind as a smudge that rubs off onto nature, which invites the assumption that man depreciates the value of nature. The relationship between humankind and the natural world is visualized as though humans do not recognize God’s power and the beauty of his creation despite it being all around them. The issue presented is that humans have prioritized their lives around industrialization and are living consumeristic lives. Humans spend all their efforts working the land and see nature as a way to get more stuff and are completely unaware of the beauty held within it. The speaker identifies a connection between humankind and nature where humankind is blinded by earthly things which does not allow them to see the true magnificence of nature. This is discussed when Hopkins writes about the divine power of