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SUBLIME
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Influence on painting:
They were landscape painters and, although in different ways, they emphasized the strength of natural elements and studied the effects of different weather conditions on the landscape.
For some aspects, they influenced the French impressionists.
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Edmund Burke, in his 1757 treatise "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
analyzed the concept of the sublime, focusing on how fear, especially the fear of death, is a key emotion tied to it.
He argued that anything that evokes pain or danger, especially terror, can provoke the sublime
While the sublime is rooted in fear, it can also bring pleasure in certain contexts, such as when danger or pain leads to delight.
Burke highlighted that fear intensifies when it is accompanied by uncertainty or obscurity, which creates a sense of the unknown.
He also noted that vastness, such as looking down from a great height, and infinity, where the limits of something are unclear, contribute to the sublime by generating a “delightful horror.”
These qualities—terror, darkness, vastness, and infinity—are central to the English Gothic literature and had a profound influence on Romantic poets