Sunday 16 March 2014

The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Picturesque

Beauty: the experience of “beauty” involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature. This leads to the feeling of attraction and emotional well-being.

Sublime: is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. “Sublime” especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.

Picturesque: is the expressive term that is peculiar to a kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture. Meaning it is the ideal entity, worthy of being made into a picture.

"The mountains are ecstatic.. None but.. God know how to join so much beauty with so much horror.”
- Thomas Gray

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