So here we are, its Wednesday and I'm to spend over £100 on lights right. Like shineey flat amazing LED light panels like dis
MEGGA DROOL
So on to today’s topic of conversation; (which is going to be based on my lecture yesterday by a Mr JACK DUPLOCK)
CONTEMPORARY SUBLIME
The sublime (from the Latin sublīmis "sloping up to the lintel, uplifted, high, lofty, elevated, exalted") is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic.
The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
And of course we all know what contemporary means right!!
Ahah so onwards
To start off with let’s have a looky see what types of sublime experiences you may encounter
Nature
Where you are faced with the edge of a cliff or the sun setting over the ocean
In Technology
Where in the advancements in technology lead us to experience things like dis
and create things like this
In the un-representable
I.E. things that cannot be explained through a language known to us
(I don’t have an image for that one for obvious reasons)
*feeling of something great*
Transcendence
You get the idea
Terror
Where you are bought to the crescendo of the unnameable fears in our consciousness
In the altered state
(Not gonna lie; I’m talking about drugs)
Or if you’re Hindu we’re talking about enlightenment.
Where you see the world differently and it is like a new birth
IN PERSPECTIVE
Nazis created images of human sublime where people were amassed at rallies to enhance feeling of being the greatest and part of a thing bigger than themselves
Nuremberg
Similar to this:
North Korea now
-similar in the end?
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In the west the sublime is used to sell perfume and aftershave
LYNX
TOM FORD
NOT sublime but she is damn sexy
NOT sublime but she is damn sexy
Guy who directed A single man
(fail)
And so the language of the sublime is commodified
Just like everything else in the world right
I digress
I digress
In religion
the sublime may mean reaching
GOD
Or
Finding your true self
In paintings that address the sublime
This usually happens
Emptiness
The sublime recognises thought and turmoil about the edge
And what is on the other side
(something I dug up about loonies who have 'spiritually awakened')
This is at complete odds with Beauty
Which is about pleasure and contentment
okay we can all say this is a beautiful painting
can you ever truly combine to two
to make a painting that addresses the transcendent reaching for the edge whilst portraying the balance and harmony in aesthetic beauty
should I go off and investigate Beauty?
I think I should
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