Landscape and the Sublime-week 6
'Untitled' (2002) Richard MisrachRichard Misrach's photography reflects the concept of the Sublime, from the Enlightenment.
Research Misrach's work by reading about his intentions, and also by looking at the work. Then answer the following questions;
1. What and when was the Enlightenment?
2. Define the concept of the Sublime.
3. How did the concept of the Sublime come out of the Enlightenment thought?
4. Discuss the subject matter, and aesthetic (look) of Misrach's work to identify the Sublime in his work. Add some more images.
5. Identify some other artists or designers that work with ideas around the Sublime, from the Enlightenment era as well as contemporary artists.
6. How does Misrach's photography make you feel? Does it appeal to your imagination?
7. Add a Sublime image of your choice to your blog, which can be Art or just a Sublime photograph.
He was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of large-scale color prints and one of the first to focus his politicized art on modern society’s irresponsible behavior toward our natural environment. The combination of these innovations led to his longest standing project, the beautiful and angry "Desert Cantos" series, which has engaged him for practically his entire career.
ReplyDeleteHis “cultural landscape” art, as it is often termed, has taken on military despoliation of nature (in 1986–87’s "Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West") and industrial pollution (in "Cancer Alley," which he made in 1998) with palpable social engagement. His newest book, the 20-by-16-inch technical tour-de-force On the Beach, recently published by Aperture, heralds a rather more complex vision of humankind’s place in the natural order. Pictured on the cusp of beach and ocean, the individuals in Misrach’s latest images seem every bit as vulnerable as the world that they occupy. The work is at once more urgent and more poetic as a consequence.
Nineteen of the On the Beach prints have been selected for an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, which is on view at the Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, until March 2 and will tour to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
I think Richard Misrach's works are not just photos of environment. what he took these photos are warning of nature. As he said (http://www.artnet.com/awc/richard-misrach.html) "The world is as terrible as it is beautiful, but when you look more closely, it is as beautiful as it is terrible".I think, his idea is like my idea to look closely around our world. The beauties can be terribly instead if we do not care about our earth. Reflective Ocean will be pit of storm. Enormous mountain can be volcano. His work made me think like that.
ReplyDeleteThat's why i said it's not just a photos of environment to show only beauty of natural world.