Drawn from across Burtynsky's portfolio and featuring new works, the presentation will explore diverse subjects, while focusing on
the sublime aesthetic qualities of industrialised landscapes and the unsettling reality of depleting resources of the planet.
Not exact matches
Alloway traces their embrace of this
aesthetic concept to the 18th century Romantic reprise of the
Sublime's «momentous and powerful»
qualities, in which the pleasure from nature's beauty is accompanied by a sense of awe, fear or dread, «solitude, silence, and infinity.»
He picks up on their dimensions, their rigid lines, and the
quality of the materials, using the
aesthetic methods of the «technological
sublime».
Instead of his irreverent drawing
aesthetic, Farhi exhibited one of his signature «drum head» paintings, the biggest I've seen; it had the soothing
quality of one of Agnes Martin's
sublime white paintings.