Notes on the Beautiful and the Sublime
The sublime in visual arts and music
Pintura
The raft of the medusa
Théodore Géricault . Contemporary and political relevance. They are hanging between life and death . Drama in the wild ocean and the hope of salvation. Murder and cannibalism. There is a certain realism in the painting which at the time was an innovation yet is isn’t completely realistic, there is not realism in an absolute sense because there is certain idealization of the human figures, they are shown in very heroic poses when they were supposed to be dying people and corpses. There is a glorification of the victims. It was painted at the end of classicism. Human drama with universal significance: passions, suffering, hope… It is notable the fact that the victims were common people..
The victims of the shipwreck are hanging between life and death. Drama in the wild ocean and the hope of salvation. Human drama, earthly drama with universal significance, the common people with their passions and suffering.
Liberty leading the people
Gavroche, les misérables. Es sublime en accioón pues sabemos que el niño con actitud heroica, y en realidad las figuras vulnerables en la composición del cuadro de un momento a otro van a morir. Lo Heroico- Lo vulnerable, lo vulnerable representado en la figura de Gavroche asimismo el valor.
The allegorical figure of liberty seem to be inspired in Roman antiquity, once again the work focuses on the common people: their misfortunes but also their braveness
The magnificence of a work of art, also lies upon what is not explicit in it, all that is suggested as in literaturethe painter can also give us a foreshadowing of the outcome of the sceneit represented such is the case of the impending death of gavroche in the barricade (man against a superior and overwhelming force)
The Barque of Dante
Literature as source of inspiration. French Romanticism, literary painting. Un aspect innovativo de esta pintura es que no todo el contenido temático es revelado al
Pintura
The raft of the medusa
Théodore Géricault . Contemporary and political relevance. They are hanging between life and death . Drama in the wild ocean and the hope of salvation. Murder and cannibalism. There is a certain realism in the painting which at the time was an innovation yet is isn’t completely realistic, there is not realism in an absolute sense because there is certain idealization of the human figures, they are shown in very heroic poses when they were supposed to be dying people and corpses. There is a glorification of the victims. It was painted at the end of classicism. Human drama with universal significance: passions, suffering, hope… It is notable the fact that the victims were common people..
The victims of the shipwreck are hanging between life and death. Drama in the wild ocean and the hope of salvation. Human drama, earthly drama with universal significance, the common people with their passions and suffering.
Liberty leading the people
Gavroche, les misérables. Es sublime en accioón pues sabemos que el niño con actitud heroica, y en realidad las figuras vulnerables en la composición del cuadro de un momento a otro van a morir. Lo Heroico- Lo vulnerable, lo vulnerable representado en la figura de Gavroche asimismo el valor.
The allegorical figure of liberty seem to be inspired in Roman antiquity, once again the work focuses on the common people: their misfortunes but also their braveness
The magnificence of a work of art, also lies upon what is not explicit in it, all that is suggested as in literaturethe painter can also give us a foreshadowing of the outcome of the sceneit represented such is the case of the impending death of gavroche in the barricade (man against a superior and overwhelming force)
The Barque of Dante
Literature as source of inspiration. French Romanticism, literary painting. Un aspect innovativo de esta pintura es que no todo el contenido temático es revelado al