Photography essay

Question:

quote : “The sublime is something which has power to compel and then destroy us. Pleasure is only pleasure if it is felt and the same is to be said about pain. ” E:burke .The area I have chosen to study is the historical movements which have inspired many surrealism concentrated artists such as; Tim Walker. I have chosen to do so, as I believe his work can be viewed within the premise of romanticism, and often shares similarities between the aesthetic theory of the sublime. This combination of power is often seen as metonymic. (not needed – begin intro with sentence below – you may be able to use last sentence in relation to Tim Walker elsewhere in the essay)

During the 1800’s, many creative pioneers (such as) philosophers, writers and artists ,began to propagate a new vision of the world, to which they coined ‘romantic’ It was an exploration which covered the ideas of nature being a divine spirit, this universal immersion of creative minds yearned for the harmony of man and nature. These ideas soon developed into traditions of antiquity, soon many artists no longer wanted to produce work which was characterised as ‘named artistic style’ turning their back on traditional renaissance work. In contemporary usage this subsequent art movement now carried with it many connotations seen as ‘romantic love’. Romance is formed off the combination of sentiment and sentimentality, However, It allows the thinking eye to add more value to what it sees, So subjectively many would agree 

The sublime is said to be ‘an instance of instances’ This was said by Roland Barthes, when he was staying why and how photography has the ability to enable emotions. It causes an independent reaction to each person’s’ emotions and what they believe to have seen, as romanticism. These experiences are those which transcends rational thought, words or language. It is an experience which is a meeting of subjective-internal (emotion) and the objective- external (nature). (well written!)

The creation  of romanticism as well as being an emotional response and an ideological concept was not only to show beauty within a non -altered landscape, but it was a reaction against religion. And an  emotional response to their work as it was an ideological concept as it went along  with the revoltionsairies and other forward thinking painter. In the 18th century break from religion, when science become the hegemonic ideology, the inventions heathen? started o undermine god, and creates a scientific basis of the world. So (don’t use word so – be more assertive and state your case!)  the Romanticism was apart of such a revolutionary time, war of independence, in colonial history …. British

End your introduction with describing which artists or work of art that you intend to discuss in your essay and why. How does their work relate to your themes of Romanticism and the sublime. Last bit should be you talking about your photographic responses ad how they interpret the same themes and essay question

(Paragraph 1) The hypothesis I propose to answer is…..To start off my investigation I intend to look into a painting which is based from the ideas of the romanticism movement, and also to which I personally consider to be sublime to myself. The piece I have chosen is called ‘a sea storm’ by Claude-Joseph Vernet. The piece was formed off the impulses of the eighteenth century, this new philosophical artistic view of the world incorporated a new intellectual view in to their art pieces. They incorporated the validity of aesthetics , including the ineluctable values of the sublimes alongside beauty based off individual taste and sensibility. The new physiological impacts concentrated more on the sensational aspects of nature and less on the subjectivity to each individual person. To my mind this painting denotes excitement, Power and strength. The Reserved strokes of genius from a oxymoron of spontaneity creating a intoxication of fasciation of man versus nature within this painting. The incorporation of narrative charters a new exotic archaic means of experimentation. Finally the colours of the pupils and dark tonal colours mimics that of the fallen, this is a pavement for ‘pleasurable terrors’ of human passions. I believe the impact of Edmunds Burke’s ‘A philosophical enquiry into the origins of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful’ creates a formal description of figurative passions. Burke states that  ‘I say the strongest emotion, because I am satisfied the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on the part of pleasure. Without all doubt, the torments which we may be made to suffer are much greater in their effect on the body and mind, than any pleasures which the most learned voluptuary could suggest, or than the liveliest imagination, and the most sound and exquisitely sensible body, could enjoy.’ (reference using Harvard system) At this time Photography was not a normal means of developing a landscape, This encaptures the thought of the individual emotion.  (reference using Harvard system)Historically the sublime is a term in which refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation’  It was first written in the 1st century AD though its origin and authorship ,What the developable outcome is from a piece of art of photography in an essence  (reference using Harvard system)what has been taken and experienced by someone, can not ever be repeated. So Both romanticism and the sublime, have the challenge of capturing a feeling which was only experienced by themselves. Developing from romanticism this combination of nature, fantasy and undertones of imagination, leads us to the intellectual artistic transition of Tim Walker.

(space new paragraph) Tim Walker has many associations many with international magazines, his exposure exposes a history of deep lasting knowledge and understanding of British culture. Many of the areas his work is accomplished through a romantic ‘spirit of place’ said to be rural and paradisal?. His exciting talent made him friend with many, describing him as ‘ A strange fox-like person’ (reference using Harvard system) He is fearless to capture human physiognomy, his sensibility is overshadowed by his glorious colour of flamboyance. The raw freedom of eccentricity creates himself a ’ artistic bohemia’. Walkers tablo? tableaux worldly images inspired a transgressions of ‘out of place’ beauty combined with incoherent objectification of mythology. Forming interesting compositions that could be addressed too as ‘sublime’. He encapsulated an understanding of social and political issues in a childlike expression of beauty rather than disagreement or anger. His angel of postmodernism fashion photography is stemmed from the authorship of expression paved before him through the creation of romanticism and the ideas of the sublime.

A Tim Walker piece that had a great influence over myself was this piece, Its named ‘ ‘ I chose this image due to the confluence of meanings. The piece enquires a generosity of spectical. The elements of surrealism echoed through the mystical atmosphere and reflected within the leant pose and bright colours that the model herself radiates. It does not objectify for but give herself an understanding of infinity, as she has an obvious place within the narrative.  The aesthetic of darker colour gives the icon a dominant strength and agency of female empowerment, something typically not expected to be seen through the perspective of a male photographer. The plurality of…

The connotations this image has to the sublime ,is the effects of pleasure and pain. Although there was no direct reenactment of this word, it still obtains influence of words derived from his, such as desire. Desire and erotisism is prevalent is much of surreal works, this provokes the image so the reader sees and endorsement of excitement. This soon can either transpire into love or power, and in this case, it is the power that is entirely bounded between normal living. The height and bottomless depths forming from both ends of this pieces, transpired into the pengamanan that is a physic; a representation of ecstasy. This moral …….This image in relation to Burke…… The mystery and smokey effect of the light itself, creates a trakuent influence of romanticism, creating a delicate sense of atmosphere, mimicking the femininity of the women centered in the image.

This leads myself onto the analysis of my own work. I had such a strong influence of surrealism, and emotion depends on the judgments of pleasure and pain. And I think this is evident through my images. I have chosen this piece; as it undergoes a repugnant change it is as if the image itself is a distant reality and and a dream like desirability of towering virtues of ecstasy. It is essentially a surrealist image, although my intentions of this was the development of the inability to breath underwater, creating a juxtaposition of the beauty that if water, essentially is the effect of nature trying to kill you. It creates an irony of how the sublime is  alive for pain, and how we take pleasure from being submerged in something that has the ability to end our lives.

How the sublime and Edmund burke goes into my work?

An older art piece, based off that of pictorialism, also gave me inspiration to focused more towards female models and friends in order to re-create and make an effective embodiment of surrealism and not sexualization. Pictorilasm was occurrent in the 1880s-1920’s this is when new cameras were developed in this time and jersey was part of a large revolution and hot bed for photography and experimentation.Soon photography was the  height of impressionism and was developed less from science and derived more into art. These allegory paintings, they are based off a short story and myths from more biblical tales and then further depicted into literal paintings. These allegorical and spiritual matter of religious scenes applied the principles composition and design but the subjective spiritual motive.

 The Artists who I looked at was that of; Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron. Cameron was a photographer in the victorian era. The bulk of her work from the categories, this being illustrative allegories based off religious and literary works. In the allegorical work in particular her work had a clear influence from that of pre rapaetlite. her work has delicate limp poses with soft lighting. Her work was unconventional through the intimacy created through he long exposure, her subject moved and by leading the lens intentionally out of focus. -allegory and symbolism within this image

A second piece by Tim walker that was influenced by pictorials, surrealism and romanticism, was that of.. Surrealism within his work is the most prevent aspect, surrealism was founded……..

Male gaze: For as long as it is known, the female body has been used as decoration in much of photography, many models seen naked with a cornucopia of little respect given to them other then what the male bodies desire. The reaction to the continuously provocative use of women to my mind is a predicament of the current cultural time we live in today and If it is still okay to use women as a fundamental trend of pleasure. During the age of when art was born it was visual culture to pain them naked, however; This art would only ever be made for capitalist men creating a fallacy. The exorcism son continued into Pictorialism, usually only prevalent within male works. The visual of female nakedness attributes a sentiment of ‘the male gaze’ to Tim Walker’s work. I don’t believe there is such a thing as ‘female’ or ‘male’ photography. Through only showing the dominant rhetoric of narrowing women to their nakedness, it connects to an unfortunate wider view of gender inequality. We need an artist who despite them being male, they strive on the unprecedented phenomena  of focusing on femininity being heard. A dialogue, purpose, s prolific sense of womanhood having a significant meaning other than their bodies. I believe Tim Walker is this photographer. It is key there are photographers not only female such as ‘FEMALE PICTORIALS PERSON” who too can establish a neutrality and establish an enquiry and impulse to photographing a woman without misconceptions as to why.

This was also reflective when I was looking into that of pictorialism, and the way to which ,, Interdisciplinary approach ,,My own imagery which is an indicative to that of the influence of pictorialism and perhaps also able to be seen as a rejection of how….

Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron is an artists who was a photographer in the victorian era. The bulk of her work from the categories, this being illustrative allegories based off religious and literary works. In the allegorical work in particular her work had a clear influence from that of pre rapaetlite. her work has delicate limp poses with soft lighting. Her work was unconventional through the intimacy created through he long exposure, her subject moved and by leading the lens intentionally out of focus. This leads me also into looking at how unique it was to have a own who has. algae influential photographer at the time. Her work is very different to anything that a man would produce . Women are looked at as pure and seen to have. loving relationship with family and sister in a clearly taboo and posed setting, almost table like. The has a strong juxtaposition to that of the male sense of photography at the time.The mans eye and the photographical gaze, Women historically are being looked at different through the representation is often eroticised and objectified.these naked figures seen as art for only the pleasure of men. However a female would show herself being empowered as a mother and ally clothed showing the sexism within the period and soon this leads onto larger post modernism topics such as feminism and the fight for women rights and want for less sexualisation of their bodies.