Sentences with phrase «sublime exaltation»

Among the romantics, who frequently sought insight and inspiration in exotic places, terrifying emotional states, and the sublime exaltation of nature, Delacroix located this experiential narrative within the act of painting itself — specifically, within the optics of illuminations zone of greatest chromatic activity: half - light.

The three artists worked closely together in the 1930s and 40s, and as Karmel notes, all «[began] with the sublime melancholy of metaphysical painting, and [transformed] it into the sublime exaltation of the nineteenth - century Romantic landscape, expressed in the language of abstraction.»