romanticism and sublime

Romanticism is the attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, and photography in Europe. over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. romanticism goes against the industrial revaluation, to escape modern reality and to go against the political norms and policies.

The Dreamer print by Caspar David Friedrich | Posterlounge

Caspar David Fredrich is a painter and draughtsman, Friedrich is best known for his later allegorical landscapes, which feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees, and Gothic ruins. he painted the painting above this text.

Romanticism | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline  of Art History

what is sublime. Sublime has long been understood to mean a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder. From the seventeenth century onwards the concept and the emotions it inspires have been a source of inspiration for artists and writers, particularly in relation to the natural landscape. but what does it mean to photographers maybe its making something look great like god and to make the person looking at the photo feel small.

Introduction: The Sublime and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art -  Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art

this photo shows a ship in a storm and how the storm makes the ship look small compared to the storm, it shows how nature can makes us feel small and helpless that whats what sublime art is suppose to be.

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