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Keywords:
Nature, life, sign, harmony
Example :
Then he unfolded to both of them the loveliness of nature in creation, explaining how the living stood higher in the scale than the dead, how the plant was above the mineral, the animal above the plant, and man above the animal, how mind and beauty are united in outward form, and how it was the task of the sculptor to seize that beauty and imprison it in his works.
This quote expresses a romantic concept of the world and of aesthetics. Everything is ordered and connected in a vertical hierarchi, in which the divine world spirit is at the top level, pervades and unfolds itself through everything at different spiritual and onthological levels. The work of art is giving shape to this divine. Thus the art work is an inspired product of the divine/God, whereagainst in modernism the artwork is conceived secularly, as a product of man, of crafted work. The latter view is represented by HCA as well.
Platonic and new platonic philosophy is an important background of the romantic.
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