Beautiful terror: Why witnessing 'the sublime' gives you that awestruck feeling | Art 101

Artists have tried for centuries to capture the sensation you feel in the face of something immeasurable.

Artworks featured in this video:
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (1818)
- The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault (1818-1819)
- Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by John Constable (1831)
- Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Barnett Newman (1950-1951)
- Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (1976)
- Roden Crater by James Turrell (began in 1977)
- Oil Spill #2 by Edward Burtynsky (2010)


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