'In my old branch the communist courgettes were beaten to shit'

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

lets start by setting the mood 

music

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

  Fascism and Extreme leftism 

-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 

Guy who directed A single man

Which to be fair is just a long perfume advert 


(fail)

And so the language of the sublime is commodified

Just like everything else in the world right

 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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