ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The modernist painter Ricarte Purugganan depicted nature as an uncontrollable force in Toilers of the Sea, 1980, the thick turquoise brushwork suggests the rough rolling of the waves threatening to engulf anything that makes comes its way.

Detailed explanation-2: -Nature was a key motif for the sublime in Romantic art; misty skies, tempestuous seas, vast gulfs and valleys, and dramatic mountain scenes were depicted on large-scale canvases to take the viewer’s breath away.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sublime has long been understood to mean a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder. From the seventeenth century onwards the concept and the emotions it inspires have been a source of inspiration for artists and writers, particularly in relation to the natural landscape.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sublime landscape is defined as having the quality of such greatness, magnitude or intensity, whether physical, metaphysical, moral, aesthetic or spiritual, that our ability to perceive or comprehend it is temporarily overwhelmed.