Landscape And the Sublime
Enlightenment
means to have or have received either spiritual or intellectual insight
The
sublime is something that is beautiful, impressive, inspiring or breath taking.
During
the 1700s artists used to imitate nature but in doing so, they would filter out
any physical flaws and after filtering it was then seen as beautiful. The
enlightenment artists and critics were beginning to demand more natural and
real art. Artists were beginning to be enlightened and after that artists began
to show more respect to nature and slowly started to use their imagination.
Their art started to look more and more sublime.
Misrach
often photographs dramatic sunsets and unspoilt landscapes (showing our
planet’s beauty) but he also captures the negative impact people have on the
environment. Misrach started his career with the epic series “Desert Candos” in
which he was photographing the American Southwest. It included 18 related
groups of pictures that show the relationship between nature and culture. He
primarily shoots photos in the southwest when he isn’t traveling.
The
High says, "Misrach’s work signals not just the environmental challenges
facing the South but also the larger costs of our modern world at the dawn of
the twenty first century."
Misrach
shows different kinds of visions in his work but at the same time you just
don’t know what vision he will show next. For example he might deliver
beautiful colour in a landscape or find “stunning composition” in crowded
seashore, or even a post-apocalyptic world.
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| battleground point-Richard Misrach |
The two images
on the bottom are more of Misrach’s work
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| untitled-Richard Misarch |
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This painting is by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, a artists from the enlightenment era.
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| This is work from Jennifer Bartlett (a contemporary artist) who works around the sublime. |
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| This is an image of the sublime. Not one of Misarch’s works. |
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