2. Define the concept of the Sublime.

sublime means:  of high moral, aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual value, noble, exalted.

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 of his work.

Richard Misrach is one of the most influential and prolific artists of his generation. In the 1970s, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are widespread practice today. Best known for his ongoing epic series, Desert Cantos, a multi-faceted approach to the study of place and man’s complex relationship to it, he has worked in the landscape for over 40 years. Other notable bodies of work include his documentation of the industrial corridor along the Mississippi River known as Cancer Alley, the sumptuous study of weather, time, color and light in his serial photographs of the Golden Gate, and On the Beach, an aerial perspective of human interaction and isolation. Recent projects mark departures from his work to date. In one series, he has experimented with new advances in digital capture and printing, foregrounding the negative as an end in itself and digitally creating images with astonishing detail and color spectrum. More recently, he built a powerful narrative out of images of graffiti produced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, made with a 4-megapixel pocket camera.
Misrach has had one-person exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Musee Beaubourg, amongst others. A mid-career traveling survey was organized by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 1996. His photographs are held in the collections of most major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In fall 2010, on the five-year anniversary of Katrina, the exhibition “Untitled [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 2005]” made its debut at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Over a dozen monographs have been published on Misrach’s work, among them Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West; Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach; The Sky Book; Richard Misrach: Golden Gate; Chronologies; On the Beach, and Destroy this Memory. He is the recipient of numerous awards in the arts including 4 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002 he was given the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography by the German Society for Photography, and in 2008 the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art Photography

5. Identify some other artists or designers that work with ideas around the Sublime, from the Enlightenment era as well as contemporary artists.

This painting also shows the influence of Claude Lorraine and Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875). The artist Frank Peyraud (1858-1948) was born in Switzerland and moved to Chicago in 1881. 

 This engraving features a classical composition, framed by trees on the left, of a calm evening on the Mississippi River at Nauvoo, Illinois.

6. How does Misrach's photography make you feel? Does it appeal to your imagination?

, some of the photo quite appeal to my imagination, feel his photography very lonely and cold,
i think that is what he want to show us in his works" landscape and the sublime.

7. Add a Sublime image of your choice to your blog, which can be Art or just a Sublime photograph.

8. Reference your sources (books and websites).

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/lewis_clark_il/htmls/il_country_exp/places/beautiful_sublime.html#
http://www.superhappypuppy.com/shp/Artist_Gallery/Pages/Richard_Misrach.html?gclid=CNjA96H9kagCFUeApAodewzSCw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Misrach
http://www.google.co.nz/images?hl=en&q=landscape&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=li&biw=1296&bih=627

Week 6-Landscape and the Sublime

1. What and when was the Enlightenment?

The enlightenment was a philosophic movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism.

Week 5- Science and reason- Video art by Pipilotti Rist

Week 5- Science and reason- Video art by Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason?

 

Still from 'Ever is Over All' (1997)

1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view. 

Historic change in the seventeenth century was a period in Europe,, on science and natural practice.People began active efforts to explore that, so as to lay the foundation for today's European science.

2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.

Science to me is essential we are today, we can almost see science everywhere, whether in live, learn, work them.The practice of science today's society makes to create experimental.

Research Pipilotti Rist's video installations to answer the following;

3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work

that uses new media/technology over traditional media?

I think the new advertising media is no substitute for the traditional media is being gradually banned.

4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.

Pipilotti Rist application of some of the ways music video, which is her personal style.Application of multiple television monitors to visit the people to bring very good visual effects, and thus to the role of commercial promotion.

5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.

Ever Is Over (1997) All envelops viewers in two slow-motion projections on adjacent walls. In one a roving camera focuses on red flowers in a field of lush vegetation. The spellbinding lull this imagery creates harmonizes with the projection to its left, which features a woman in sparkling ruby slippers promenading down a car-lined street. The fluidity of both scenes is disrupted when the woman violently smashes a row of car windshields with the long-stemmed flower she carries. As the vandal gains momentum with each gleeful strike of her wand, an approaching police officer smiles in approval, introducing comic tension into this whimsical and anarchistic scene.

6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?

I think the rational and irrational practices of women from different angles to define. In today's rule of law, smashing the windows for a woman of such acts is completely unrecognized.  But we also need to make clear that this behavior is a woman out of what state of mind, and spirit, or a woman would like to express to us what.

7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.

I like this artistic expression of her, she told us that she did not fully express what they think, to read his works, I think I need to combine the background music, the visual display to the association, giving unlimited imagination.

Reference：

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81191 

http://www.pipilottirist.net/moss.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgiSyCr6BY