Nature - Critical Texts

Question 1

frank lloyd wright, organic architecture, 1936

Answer 1

‘instead of many things, one thing’
‘all furnishings so far as possible integral parts of the architecture’

Question 2

Roberta Olson, Italian Renaissance Sculpture, 1992

Answer 2

‘part of a dialogue between art and nature’
‘he appears to emerge out of the mountain’
‘manifest an interest in nature and the nascent scientific experiments encouraged by the medici’

Question 3

Edmund burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757

Answer 3

sublime is caused by a ‘greatness of dimension’ and a ‘terrible uncertainty’ or the inability to ‘see an object distinctly’

Question 4

Michael Bockemuhl, Turner, 1994

Answer 4

‘the speed and the motion itself are a reality experienced in the painting’
focussing on ‘the portrayal of nature as an experience’