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Characteristics of the Kantian Dynamic Sublime and the Visual Abstraction in the Paintings of William Turner

Summary/Abstract: In my paper, I examine the characteristics of Kant’s dynamic sublime and the visual abstraction in the artworks of William Turner. According to my research, the English painter’s oeuvre contributed to the development of modern art, since the disintegration and dissolution of the contours and the forms can already be observed in his pictures, a technique which Turner generally used to express the overwhelming power of nature and the various phenomena of colour and light. Kant is the most significant author of the examined era and his writings are also useful in order to understand the abstract artistic motifs, so I consider it appropriate to construe Turner’s artworks in the light of Kantian aesthetics.

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