Bits And Pieces
Jan. 21st, 2007 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo1. Yesterday's tutorial was fun. Mainly we sat around and looked at reproductions of landscape paintings and tried to classify them according to the 18th century categories of "the beautiful"," the sublime" and "the picturesque".
2. I see Peter O'Toole is likely to be nominated for an Oscar. I hope he wins. I spotted him on a train once about ten years ago. He was sitting in a corner drinking Coca Cola and hiding behind the Times. He looked frail even then. I pretended I hadn't seen him.
3. It's my birthday. They said it might snow, but it hasn't yet. I'm 56.
4. Here's a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby. It isn't "beautiful" because the forms are too rugged. And it's too far removed from the norms of 18th century landscape painting to be called "picturesque". So I guess we'll have to settle for "sublime".
2. I see Peter O'Toole is likely to be nominated for an Oscar. I hope he wins. I spotted him on a train once about ten years ago. He was sitting in a corner drinking Coca Cola and hiding behind the Times. He looked frail even then. I pretended I hadn't seen him.
3. It's my birthday. They said it might snow, but it hasn't yet. I'm 56.
4. Here's a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby. It isn't "beautiful" because the forms are too rugged. And it's too far removed from the norms of 18th century landscape painting to be called "picturesque". So I guess we'll have to settle for "sublime".
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Date: 2007-01-21 01:56 pm (UTC)Re picture: When did the term "Gothic" come into being? Possibly not until the 19th Century. But I think the Wright painting fits nicely with the Gothic literature of the late 18th Century.
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Date: 2007-01-21 08:07 pm (UTC)Yes, there's certainly a gothic side to Wright. This painting is dated 1774- a decade after the publication of the first gothic novel.