ENGB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Great Man Theory, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Author"s point: humans should be proud to be cogs in the machine. If only history is done by great and powerful individuals, placing workers away from that category of men destroys any hope of them getting a better life. Instead of admiration like history, it"s more downward-looking. How awful, sad, dirty the living situation is. How it makes you feel; emotional response; visceral feeling. The medium is the message; matters how you are saying things (form you are saying them in) Art in itself is nothing, art is valuable because it conveys thought. Not about what you"re seeing; it"s about how you look and how you adjust your eyes. Water is a fluid mechanism: you can look at the surface and reflection. Power is in the perception of the artist and the viewer. Turner was trying to replicate how the viewer perceives things. Victorian art was depended on for the people who lived in a terrible world without design.
