romanticism
Romanticism is all about celebrating the spontaneity , imagination and the purity of nature. It creates emotions such as apprehensive, horror, terror and awe. Romanticism is all about characterising the focus on emotion and individualism, also the glorification of the past of nature, preferring the medieval over the classical, as well rationalism of the enlightenment. All together romanticism created freedom, individual expression as well as celebrating nature and its natural world. The romantics believed that putting emotions over a reason was a more valiant choice. The romantic movement/ the romantic era was originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, for most of the Western world, it was at its peak from approximately 1800 to 1850. From my research I found out that Both the English poet and artist William Blake and the Spanish painter Francisco Goya have been dubbed “fathers” of Romanticism by various scholars for their works’ emphasis on subjective vision, the power of the imagination, and an often darkly critical political awareness.
Romanticism was founded by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Schlegel, they began to speak of romantische Poesie (” romantic Poetry”) in the 1970s, this contrasted with “classic” but in terms of spirit rather than merely dating. Romanticism all started with the emphasis on the imagination and emotion, it emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1789.
Sublime
Sublime is all about the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical. aesthetic. spiritual or artistic. The word sublime especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of measurements. The word means a high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style. Sublime is meant to show how something can show beauty and terror at the same time. It shows a convey of opposites, for example waves crashing onto a wall could show such beautiful energy as the water splashes ever however it could be really dangerous and seriously injure someone.
Sublime helps to make bad things good, such as storms they can be life threatening but can also be captured as such beauty. The Sublime is known as a western aesthetic concept of ‘the exalted’ of ‘beauty that is grand and dangerous’. The Sublime refers to the wild, unbounded grandeur of nature. Personally I believe that sublime is used to describe the world and how such disasters are happening like wars and global warming however there is some natural things happening like trees growing hat we all take for granted, we have flowers, and the pretty sky with a bright sun which tends to make people happy and we all enjoy having but don’t make the effort to save the world. This suggests that the people are too selfish for this pure and innocent world. Its always about taking and never giving and it should be seen the other way round. Therefore the world is dying with things such as global warming, Things such as dramatic shifts is human-induced climate change, stemming from the substantial release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and as a result of the humans not taking care of this beautiful earth we end up paying the price and consequences of it suffering.
Typically romanticism is seen as a feeling of love, and a strong attraction towards someone or something, however romanticism is seen as much more than that, it holds a much deeper meaning, such as expressing of personal feeling and interest in the natural world. Its all about how nature has shaped us, the way nature has changed through out the years and how things have been damaged, wars that have ruined countries and global warming destroying the planet, romanticism is all about the way in which the world is always going to be our home and if we don’t treat it well we will get consequences. I personally believe romanticism i art and photography is to capture the moment of that time, for example when you go out and you have pretty view in front of you take a picture to have a memory of the world during that time an the world is slowly dying and might not be like that in a few years time.
Very thorough research of Romanticism, the Sublime – well done!
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