Clicking on image will take you to a google slide show to demonstrate how this would be displayed. Beginnings and Endings is a minimal set of images taken from the seashore at sunrise and sunset. The long exposures show the changing light as day moves to night and back again representing the sublime concept of …
Assignment One feedback reflections
a1-landscape-tutor-feedbackDownload The feedback was pretty straightforward and Chris has given me some interesting things to look at which I'll comment on over the next few weeks. Chris agreed about the final edit and I'd pretty much reached the same conclusion as he did. I'd included a couple of images that I liked on their own …
Assignment One – Beauty and the sublime, Tutor submission
Interpretation of the brief I was feeling a bit melancholic before Christmas. I always find it an odd time and wanted to explore that process of the hope and joy of looking forwards but the grief and fear of looking backwards and realising what has been lost. There's a lot of emotion around that time …
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Assignment one: Process
When deciding on a direction for assignment one, I chose firstly a location, the seaside. I wanted to convey something about the time of year, that is Christmas and New Year or Winter Solstice if you like which took me to the idea of beginnings and endings. I had the sense that the Sublime had …
Seascapes of the sublime: Vernet, Monet, and that Oceanic Feeling
Monet, Belle-elle, Rain effect. (Commons.wikimedia.org, 2019) This is a review of a journal article in 'New Literary History' written by Stephen Levine in 1985. Based on the accounts of various artists who travelled to see the sights of 'Belle-ile-en-mer, a small island off the coast of Brittany, the overall language of the piece evokes the …
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Exploring work of photographers and artists dealing with the sublime
Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky seeks to find the sublime within the complex dynamic of globalisation. The intricate layers of transaction that occur prior to our purchase of a cheap mobile phone for example. The images are not 'of nature' in the traditional Burkean sense but show an environment that we have created that has a …
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Burke, Kant and the spiritual sublime
Burke, pleasure, pain and self-preservation In 1757, Edmund Burke published his treatise on the aesthetics: "A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful". It provided a systematic analysis of the qualities of the sublime providing a theoretical framework and a legitimacy to the Romantic movement. (Wordsworth Trust, 2020) Burke …
Exercise 1.7: Assignment preparation
Beauty and the sublime "Beginnings and Endings" My aim for this assignment is to explore the theme of impermanence and the dynamic nature of life and all things. In part this is inspired by this time of year as people come together at Christmas dinner and reminisce about departed loved ones whilst looking forward to …
Landscape, Place and Environment 