ROMANTIC NATURALISMOBSERVATION OF

EXTERNAL NATURE

INTERNAL NATURE

MOUNTAINS, OCEANS, FIELDS

THE MIND, REVERIES, MYSTICAL VISIONS

THE WORSHIP OF NATURE

A NEW CONCEPT OF NATURAL BEAUTY:THE

SUBLIME

causing ASTONISHMENT, ADMIRATION, REVERENCE

caused by STRENGTH, VIOLENCE, PAIN, TERROR

The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it. J.M. TURNER, The Saint

Gothard

To make anything very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary….the ocean is an object of no small terror. Indeed terror is in all cases whatsoever, … the ruling principle of the sublime.

J.M. TURNER, Snowstorm

J.M. TURNER The Shipwreck, 1805

EFFECT CREATEDWHAT ASPECT OF MAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE IS STRESSED BY THIS PAINTING?

WHAT ADJECTIVES COULD YOU USE TO DESCRIBE THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE PICTURE?

DOES THIS PAINTING REMIND YOU OF ANY OF THE ROMANTIC POETS YOU HAVE STUDIED?

STRUCTURE OF THE PAINTING UPRIGHT FORMATBASED ON HORIZONTAL

LINESVORTEX LIKE AND

SWIRLING

THE WORSHIP OF NATURE

AWARENESS OF THE UNIVERSE IDEAL MILIEU FOR MEDITATIONA MIRROR OF THE POET’S FEELINGSA REVELATION OF GOD’S PRESENCE IN THE UNIVERSEAN ESCAPE FROM SORROW AND PAIN

JOHN CONSTABLE, View Of Dedham, 1814

JOHN CONSTABLE, The Hay Wain, 1821

COUNTRY v. TOWN

NEW ATTITUDE TO COUNTRY PEOPLEREALISTIC APPROACHA REFUGE FROM THE CITY AS A SOURCE OF

UGLINESSCORRUPTION

J.M. TURNER, Rain, Steam and Speed, 1844