Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each statement by whether it belongs to the SUBLIME or the PICTURESQUE.
Groups: The sublime · The picturesque
- Land judged by whether it would compose well as a picture
- The word means fit to be made into a picture
- Irregular, varied scenery with agreeable roughness
- Formulated by Burke in 1757
- Mountains, storms and precipices
- Pleasurable terror before the vast and overwhelming
Hints
- One category is about overwhelming scale; the other about pictorial suitability.
- Anything about composing well belongs to the second.
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The sublime: Pleasurable terror before the vast and overwhelming, Mountains, storms and precipices, Formulated by Burke in 1757
The picturesque: Land judged by whether it would compose well as a picture, Irregular, varied scenery with agreeable roughness, The word means fit to be made into a picture
Why
The picturesque is the stranger of the two once stated plainly: it assesses land by pictorial criteria, reversing the expected relation in which a painting represents a place. Tourists carried tinted glasses to view scenery as if already painted, which is the idea taken to its logical end.
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