dimanche 31 mars 2013




Why can't I add anything ?


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