/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1913711
>Dat fucking Platonism
>It's everywhere I look

I've got one of Nerdrum's books on order, thanks for the sample of what's to come.

Here's something Romantic, for all the lack of Romantic paintings in this thread. A key aspect is the "sublime", which is one of those tricky words that's hard to define. I've heard it described as the feeling of standing before the presence of something overwhelmingly powerful (Nature, God, whatever) in full awareness of your comparative insignificance, yet you are not fearful.

I guess it can be something 'like' that, I prefer to think of it as a certain awe or wonderment you get from grasping the true depth and scale of a thing. Anyhow there's a ton of literature about the sublime if you care to read about it, and the Romantics were obsessed about it... so much so that any art that highlights the sublime can be called "romantic" regardless of its era.