CHAPTER II MODERN ¨PAINTERS I
dimanche 31 mars 2013
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Chapter II MP I and 2
Rsukin starts off his full career, after a
few minor works, with a resounding defense of Tur,er with a
But this work if we examine it fully, turns
put to more than the defense od a
printer, howver great one beliebce him to be
Because one must ask oneself, why does
Ruskin make so great a fuss/case /about for Turner ?
The greatest landscape painter
of all time, (MP…?) the greatest man of his age, (MP ….)
To put is as simply and briefly as possible, we would like to
argue, that it is as if Ruskin believed
that Turner had revealed to mankind, in Nature itself, Plato’s
world of ideas or forms,
Let us take an example from MP I, and MP II, Part II,
In MP II, Ruskin develops the idea of
Put plato text from here from Lectures on Art
Ill : Land's End
This is the main type of picture and natural scenery discovered by Turner that Ruskin intends to plunge his reader into
Quote from unity in diversity...
Strong individuality, but cooperation adhesion to the general good and interest, (quote landsend ...overcome by ...storm ...
Thus a sort equivalent of a Platonic idea
It may seem strange to make this rapprochement as Plato is against the imitation of storms or violent phenomena of Nature ... (see....)
Cooperation
Ruskin realizes thus has had no effect
All around him, with the further development of liberal capitalism, he sees competition, indigence tone's fellow men, and the negative impact of the IR on nature
After MP II Ruskin interrupts is work on MP and works for several years on architecture
This allows him to demnstre that gothic architecture which also embodies the platonic forms of nature as R defined them in MP produced with medieval architecture in Venicen and elsewhere the closest thing to a perfect ideal sociéty
Yet this did not prevent it from failing, due to its demise by the false renaissance ideal , which came to embody the pride and and vanity of renaissance man
After a long passage via architrcure and its history, he make a negative assessment of the Lanscape feelin in MP 3
Men who act correctly have no inclination toward the LF
It often onle leads to daydreaming ...
Neverthelsee he fonishes MP and at the same the makes more a,more pronouncement in his lectures on social and economic issus
After finishing MP he akes a purele ecomic statement highly critical of classical pol economists
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