Accoding to Hamilton:
“The Enlightenment si generally described as taking place during thr 18th century and is centred in France. Like the Renaissance, the values and ideas that developed during the period of the Elightenment are described as having a major influenceon current ways of thinking in the west and therefore the production of contemporary western visual culture."
Charles Natoire "The expulsion from paradise" 1740
2.define the concept of the sublime
For the political theorist Edmund Burke " Sublime connect to landscape. The association between the power of nature and a recognition of the divinity behind it was a constant theme of early Romatic writing." Also he found that the sublime was “the ultimate experience of divinity, a mixture of awe, fear, and enlightenment produced by the contemplation of a powerful, terrifying nature”
"Gamba" 2009 Robert Marchessault
3. how did the concept of the sublime come out of the enlightenment thought?
Sublime appeared in the 18th century, some as the Enlightenment, after Renaissance, people first time painted landscape and looked at things more realistically, traditional religious thought fell down but another new kind of thought which still had connection with religion raised.
"Thunderstorm at sea" 1804 Allston
4. discuss the subject matter, and aesthetic (look) of Misrach's work to identify the sublime in his work. Add
some more images of his work.
From 1970, Richard Misrach helped pioneer the Renaissance of colour phtography and large-scale presentation that are widespread practice today, he is an icon in landscape phtography history, he shouted the natural power and the relationship with human or human world, through took pictures he saw the natural beauty, also understood that behind the beauty is danger and terribleness.
5. indentify some other artists or designers that work with ideas around the sublime, from the Enlightenment
era as well as contemporary artists
John Martin
Detroit Bike
Cali Bound
6. how does Misrach's photography make you feel? does it appeal to your imagination?
His phtography to me like a serious and funny thoughts mixed, because the atmosphere always very solemn, like desert, mountain, ocean... but put those subjects into these screeens, the impact point out new unique imagination. Im not very uausl to combine this kind of extremely different matters, i prefer harmonious with a little bit humorous.
7.add a sublime image of your choice
Oscar Prinsen (Netherkands)
references
Hamilton, P. (1992). The enlightment and the birth of society science, in Hall, S. & Gieben, B. (eds)., Formantions of Modernity. Cambridge: Open University Press
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