sublime - 1.beautiful 2.of the highest moral or spiritual value 3. excellent or particularly impressive 4. complete or utter
picturesque - 1. very attractive, visually pleasing 2. vivid, so accurate or detailed as to evoke a clear mental image of what has been described. 3. distinctive, having a pleasingly distinctive or unusual atmosphere
(found myself establishing whether a piece of art was one or the other or both, and thought others might find it useful)
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please read Tom Stoppards "Arcadia"
"The sublime glow of her halo cast a soft radiance over the picturesque garden" ?
I also heard it defined like this.
Sublime is the beauty of nature we are afraid of, the dizzying power of mountains that tower over us, dense rain forests that threaten to swallow you in thier mystery, and deserts whose vastness aches in the mind. It's the kind of melencholic spiritual beauty that makes you weep or hold your chest and gasp in awe.
While picturesque is a quaint garden, where you sip tea and feel cozy, in control. It is where the carrots and dragonsnaps obey your command. It's the kind of beauty that brings a warm benevolent grin to your face on a sunny day.
Hey didn't we do this before? Did I delete that post way-back-when, or is it still floating somewhere in our (becoming sublime) 2000 some odd posts? I remember saying I prefered the sublime.
Weird. It is in the search are but not the blog. Can I recover it somehow?
http://search.blogger.com/?as_q=picturesque+sublime&ie=UTF-8&ui=blg&bl_url=alabelforartists.blogspot.com&x=54&y=6
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