ROMANTICNATURALISM ROMANTIC NATURALISM OBSERVATION OF EXTERNAL NATUREINTERNAL NATURE MOUNTAINS, OCEANS, FIELDS THE MIND, REVERIES, MYSTICAL VISIONS
THE WORSHIP OF NATURE A NEW CONCEPT OF NATURAL BEAUTY:THE SUBLIME causing ASTONISHMENT, ADMIRATION, REVERENCE caused by STRENGTH, VIOLENCE, PAIN, TERROR
The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it. J.M. TURNER, The Saint Gothard
To make anything very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary….the ocean is an object of no small terror. Indeed terror is in all cases whatsoever, … the ruling principle of the sublime. J.M. TURNER, Snowstorm
J.M. TURNER The Shipwreck, 1805
EFFECT CREATED WHAT ASPECT OF MANS RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE IS STRESSED BY THIS PAINTING? WHAT ADJECTIVES COULD YOU USE TO DESCRIBE THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PICTURE? DOES THIS PAINTING REMIND YOU OF ANY OF THE ROMANTIC POETS YOU HAVE STUDIED? STRUCTURE OF THE PAINTING UPRIGHT FORMAT BASED ON HORIZONTAL LINES VORTEX LIKE AND SWIRLING
THEWORSHIP OF NATURE THE WORSHIP OF NATURE AWARENESS OF THE UNIVERSE IDEAL MILIEU FOR MEDITATION A MIRROR OF THE POETS FEELINGS A REVELATION OF GODS PRESENCE IN THE UNIVERSE AN ESCAPE FROM SORROW AND PAIN
JOHN CONSTABLE, View Of Dedham, 1814
JOHN CONSTABLE, The Hay Wain, 1821
COUNTRY v. TOWN NEW ATTITUDE TO COUNTRY PEOPLE REALISTIC APPROACH A REFUGE FROM THE CITY AS A SOURCE OF UGLINESS CORRUPTION
J.M. TURNER, Rain, Steam and Speed, 1844