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A view of the Roman Campagna from Tivoli, evening by Claude Lorrain, 1644–1645. Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travellers ...
The notion of the picturesque: the term "picturesque" means "picture-like", where the natural world is experienced as if it is divided into art-like scenes [1] Objects experienced as beautiful tend to be small, smooth, and fair in color. [3]: 17–18 In contrast, objects viewed as sublime tend to be powerful, intense and terrifying. Picturesque ...
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In the philosophy of art, an interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of a work of art. [a] An aesthetic interpretation expresses a particular emotional or experiential understanding most often used in reference to a poem or piece of literature, and may also apply to a work of visual art or performance. [1]
Kalhaṇa's Rājataraṃgiṇī authored in the mid-twelfth-century AD is another literary work on śāntarasa, though there is debate among scholars on whether Rājataraṃgiṇī should be considered as a historical work or literature. Based on the length and contents of the work, the author himself considers it to be art-literature (kāvya).
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The Alankara Shastra is the traditional Indian science of aesthetics that deals with the principles and techniques of literary composition and ornamentation. It is an important aspect of Indian literary criticism and aims to enhance the beauty and expressiveness of literary works. It is based on the concept that literary works should be ...
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