During the first semester of my third year at Falmouth University, I have produced a photographic landscape project during a tour across the South West of England. Following in the footsteps of artist J.M.W Turner I depicted elements of the Sublime through ambiguity, achieved by the technique of ICM (Intentional Camera Movement).
In total a portfolio of 19 images represent locations across the two counties of Cornwall and Devon. In my second semester I plan to continue the tour and expand to other county’s including Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. The foundations of the project are inspired by Turner’s ‘Tour of the West-country’ in 1811. Where he sketched environmental landmarks to later be depicted through paint in his later years.
The Sublime is an emotional response upon viewing nature and can be experienced through a range of feelings overriding rational thought. It was extremely popular to depict within paintings during the 18th and 19th century’s where Romantic artists like Turner celebrated the spontaneity of nature and its cruel hold over humanity. These are what the images below attempt to define through a range of differing topographies and subject matters…
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