1. What and when was the Enlightenment?
The enlightenment is generally described as taking place during the 18th century and is centred in France. Like the Renaissance, the values and ideas that developed during the period of enlightenment are described as having a major influence on current ways of thinking in the west and therefore the production of western visual religious culture. (Academic Literacies in Visual Communication 1)
2. Define the concept of the Sublime.
The define concept of sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. For Burke the sublime was already connected to landscape. (ALVC Resource Book 2011)
3. How did the concept of the Sublime come out of the Enlightenment thought?
During the 17th century, the Enlightenment was the new theory of man and creation in which “religious doctrines have no place in the understanding of the physical and human worlds.” (ALVC Resource Book, 2011. Pg 93) In the 18th century landscape paintings only existed for two reasons; as a picturesque setting for something more important, human drama, and as typography, or a quasi-scientific reconstruction of the land masses of a particular area. (ALVC Resource Book, 2011. Pg 109)
4. Discuss the subject matter, and aesthetic (look) of Misrach's work to identify the Sublime in his work. Add some more images of his work.
Misrach’s work is quite extrodinary, the approaches he makes with his photography gives the work the sense of nature being more powerful to view than some of the figures in society, looking at one small individual within nature you start to see the human individual society against the whole world. That’s how Misrachs works relates to the sublime concepts .
5. Identify some other artists or designers that work with ideas around the Sublime, from the Enlightenment era as well as contemporary artists.
6. How does Misrach's photography make you feel? Does it appeal to your imagination
Misrach’s photography makes me feel quite small in the world regardless of the love ones that are around me. Makes you feel relaxed and calm, you could just stand there and have a good look at his work and think to yourself about the importance of your place in the world and what it is you were really made for. , if you are here for a reason and what is that reason , is it good or bad , and are you going to be ready for it . The feeling of his work makes you feel that your actually in his work , makes you have an adventure of life.
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8. Reference your sources (books and websites).
- AUT University. (2011). ALVC1 Resource Book. Pg 109. Retrieved Decmeber 11, 2002 from http://media.dickinson.edu/landscapes/Ia_landscape_Europe.html
http://www.edelmangallery.com/misrach.htm - AUT University. (2011). ALVC1 Resource Book. Pg 109. Retrieved Decmeber 11, 2002 from http://media.dickinson.edu/landscapes/Ia_landscape_Europe.html
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