Sublime

Let take a closer look at the spiritual life of African with the art of ritual masks. Africa is the country of masks and wooden statues. Men were the ones who used masks during ritual dances. The masks’ images were sublime. The majority of African masks were highly stylized - completely change the shape of face and body. The images were simplified; the sizes of the balance were changed. This unique feature was completely unfamiliar with the art of the Renaissance which held a high respect to…

content, accorded with three distinctive elements raised by Cole’s essay. In the essay, mountains come up the first and indicates an important concept as “a union of the magnificent.” In the upper right center of the painting, mountains standing as sublime watch over the human presence below. The pond on the left of the painting echoes…

Jonathan Bailey or often “Raven” on the internet, explores the ideas of gothic elements in his poems, although “Outcast” differs amongst them, as it views upon nature and scientific views. Within this poem, Bailey uses sublime in order to construct the idea of feeling alone and ostracised in the universe. Alongside that he also incorporates the atmosphere and message by repeatedly insinuating society’s foolishness and mentioning souls repetitively throughout the poem. “Raven’s” concept of being…

The video, Sacraments 101: Eucharist, explained the appropriate ways that the general public shall receive the Holy communion; furthermore, the video points out that many individuals receive the Eucharist inappropriately. The Roman Missal clearly announced that the Consecrated Host may be received either on the tongue of in the hand, at the discretion of each Communicant. The video lists that multiple fallacious ways—snatching, taking, and biting the Host—may be disrespectful to Jesus and the…

that stressed the importance of imagination and the value of emotion over intellect. Authors of this time period criticized the disconnect between the mind and the soul. The industrial revolution drew people even further away from emotions and the ‘sublime’. It was a chaotic time. Parents sold their children into labor seeking financial relief. Chimney sweeps were left to drown in the ashes of the upper class, paid pennies for hours of hard manual labor and left to rot on…

painting, namely, by focusing on key elements such as the lighting, colors used and the placement of objects such as the Borghese Gladiator, the woman in white, the sinking ship and the broken bridge, I will focus on how Cole invokes the feeling of sublime and emphasizes that in spite of economic prosperity, growth and visible power, empire will inevitably fall into the cycle of destruction and bloodshed. The painting Destruction shows a fictional city, located on the banks of a river…

PERFECT BRUNCH One of the best things Arizona is known for is the plenty of restaurants that have great views of the city. There are several restaurants in Tempe that serve up excellent views with tasty dishes. One thing in life that everyone should do is sit outside in an exclusive spot with some good food and drinks encircled by friends or family. One such restaurant is Snooze, a perfect brunch place to hang out with friends and family on week end. It is located in the college avenue in Tempe.…

two opposing ideas again how can you joyfully accept your own suffering. Another example of Gueranger using these contradictory statement to put a positive spin on a horrible death, “A sublime and lamentable spectacle met their eyes. Cecilia in the agonies of death,” (127) This sentence in itself is a paradox, sublime with a positive meaning and lamentable with a negative meaning, both contradicting each other leaving the reader to believe that this was a joyous death, which would confuse the…

Clery does not agree with Moers’s definition and adds that many woman writers would not fit her criteria and would be left behind. Furthermore he acknowledges that both sexes can produce Male and Female Gothic. According to Wright, who advocated a similar principle, the proper way to address it is “feminine, rather than female” ; since it was written and read by both sexes. Wright even makes this term wider and argues that its origin can be traced to “Northanger Novels”, which were written by…

In a modern society where all forms of media are inundated by violence, one becomes relatively hardened to violence in mass media. However, “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy will still jolt the modern reader out of complacency. Written as a sort of anti-Western epic, “Blood Meridian” follows its protagonist, “the kid” as he drifts through the southwest in the 1800s. The kid eventually joins an outlaw band of Indian hunters who have a taste for blood and violence like no other. As the story…