THE NATURE OF GOTHIC by John Ruskin (From The Stones of.
John Ruskin, the Victorian writer, art critic, artist, and thinker, was a man of staggering talent and energy. He wrote constantly, producing a gigantic body of work that spanned various.

On Art and Life by John Ruskin contains an essay: The Nature of Gothic (1853) and a transcript from a lecture: The Work of Iron (1859). Ruskin uses these themes as a basis to talk about work, creativity, consumerism and artistic freedom. His ideas are still relevant even though they are decades old.

In an essay written when he was nineteen, Ruskin argued that a landscape painter 'must be capable of experiencing those exquisite and refined emotions which nature can arouse in a highly intellectual mind' (1.279), and one can imagine him cultivating his own mind to receive just such sensations. While at Oxford in 1837 he produced a passable evocation of Wordsworth's Nature Spirit in an.

The Gothic Revival represented chiefly two things: firstly, in its earlier form, it was a Romantic celebration in stone of the spirit and atmosphere of the Middle Ages; secondly, in its later and more serious form, the Gothic Revival reflected the architectural and philosophical conviction of its exponents that the moral vigour of the Middle Ages was reflected in its Gothic architecture, and.

Ruskin, John. Unto This Last and Other Writings. This is a collection of John Ruskin's economic and social writings. Placed against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, it is attempt to think through issues of capitalism, socialism, and moral ontology. Like any economic writing, it needs to be taken into account for today's technology.

The Stones of Venice Background by John Ruskin. What exactly is it about the Gothic style in which Ruskin discovers this height of moral being? Fortunately for the reader as well as future architects and admirers of the solid art of construction, Ruskin takes the time to create a list of the six elements of moral temperament which characterizes the Gothic aesthetic. These elements are.

John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde embody the “Art for Art’s sake” movement because they enjoy art for what it is, which is simply art. They both rejected the concept that art has to be studied because it holds a deeper moral lesson. For them, true beauty lies in the imperfection, because in life nothing is truly perfect. Wilde and Ruskin believe that art is a form of liberation and freedom.