The Sublime Art
The sublime
The transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism period was a change from reason to feeling; Rousseau’s ideas helped to bring about the romanticism period. His ideas of man was born free which helped shape this new period, were people were anxious to be free instead of just being political, and of thought, moral, spiritual, of worship, of taste, of felling. This period brought about vast interest to the medieval period and the sublime. Artists were attracted towards sublime art because it helped the viewer to connect emotionally to the artwork and to show the greatness of the painting; one can notice the use of sublime art on the Monk by the Sea and the Wanderer above the Sea of Mist by Caspar David Friedrich
Sublime was the idea of a kind of beauty that was inspired by its kindness and terror. Edmund Burke a philosopher that study the ideas of sublime defines it as feeling of awe mixed with terror; he explained that what intimated and brought intense emotion on the human was the feeling of pain and fear, this feeling could be trigger by fierce landscapes like strong storms or powerful rivers (Kleiner, 762). Sublime was also thought as quality of greatness whether it was emotional, moral or spiritual; it was seen as the greatness of nature and the powerless of men. In many cases sublime was seen as the power of God in our world.
Monk by the sea is one of Friedrich famous works, the painting is divided horizontally by the sky the sea and the land. Looking toward the top of the paint it looks clear and calm, but then the clouds start to become dark, the sea looks freezing cold given the appearance of being almost black; the whole painting transmit a feeling of coldness and the feeling that a torment is about to happen. Towards the left side of the painting there is a monk contemplating what is in front of him. The place of the monk is a way for the viewer to become the monk and experience what he is seeing, the viewer feels a spiritual connection to
The transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism period was a change from reason to feeling; Rousseau’s ideas helped to bring about the romanticism period. His ideas of man was born free which helped shape this new period, were people were anxious to be free instead of just being political, and of thought, moral, spiritual, of worship, of taste, of felling. This period brought about vast interest to the medieval period and the sublime. Artists were attracted towards sublime art because it helped the viewer to connect emotionally to the artwork and to show the greatness of the painting; one can notice the use of sublime art on the Monk by the Sea and the Wanderer above the Sea of Mist by Caspar David Friedrich
Sublime was the idea of a kind of beauty that was inspired by its kindness and terror. Edmund Burke a philosopher that study the ideas of sublime defines it as feeling of awe mixed with terror; he explained that what intimated and brought intense emotion on the human was the feeling of pain and fear, this feeling could be trigger by fierce landscapes like strong storms or powerful rivers (Kleiner, 762). Sublime was also thought as quality of greatness whether it was emotional, moral or spiritual; it was seen as the greatness of nature and the powerless of men. In many cases sublime was seen as the power of God in our world.
Monk by the sea is one of Friedrich famous works, the painting is divided horizontally by the sky the sea and the land. Looking toward the top of the paint it looks clear and calm, but then the clouds start to become dark, the sea looks freezing cold given the appearance of being almost black; the whole painting transmit a feeling of coldness and the feeling that a torment is about to happen. Towards the left side of the painting there is a monk contemplating what is in front of him. The place of the monk is a way for the viewer to become the monk and experience what he is seeing, the viewer feels a spiritual connection to
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