Sun Setting On Our Sublime Mixed Media By Caroline Drolet

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Medium:

Mixed Media

Size - (USA):

24 W x 24 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

61.0 W x 61.0 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Undecided

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

462438

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Artwork Description:

This work presents us with a comment on the entrenched, all-pervasive influence of Kant�s ideas on Beauty verses the Sublime, ideas which informed much of the 20th-century�s avant-garde�s views on the nature of art and of what qualifies as beautiful. Kant believed that Beauty was to be equated with bourgeois values of domesticity, hence with woman and the feminine. He proposed the Sublime as a concept of beauty which superseded this all too feminine one; this idea drove the avant-garde, during the course of the 20th century, to embrace the mostly male Sublime by celebrating the power of machines and, essentially, the beauty of chaos and war. This piece seeks to expose the tragic influence such ideas continue to exert today, and to suggest their inevitable demise, in the wake of growing human and environmental crises.

Artwork Keywords:   Original Mixed Media

Materials:   Mixed Media