PP224 Study Guide - Final Guide: Virtue Ethics, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Picturesque
Document Summary
The beautiful tends to be small and smooth but varied, delicate, fair in colour. Sublime is powerful, vast, intense, and terrifying. Picturesque is in the middle being complex, eccentric, varied and irregular, rich and forceful, vibrant with energy. Works of nature were more appealing when they resembled works of art. Nature divided into scenes, blocks of scenery. 20th century is appreciating through tourism, travel brochures and picture postcards. Formalist theory, about the nature of art, object is a work of art when moving by a. Inspired nature writing and paintings, 18th century combination of shapes, colours and lines (significant form) Traditional aesthetics of nature (formalism and picturesque), essential in the appreciation of nature. Parks and reserves are there because they were seen as appealing in light of the traditional aesthetics of nature. Motivated to keep them based on aesthetics rather than ethical values. The failings of traditional aesthetics of nature and the requirements of.
