Thursday, September 15, 2011

What is a word for the beauty felt or seen in depressing or tragic artworks?

I am writing an example of a proposal/artist statement. The sculpture I am writing about is my own, it has a tragic theme but at the same time beautiful... How can I describe this? Are there a couple words that could sum up the beauty in tragedy? Or the beauty in chaos? The beauty in sadness? Something along those lines...





Thanks!|||Try haunting|||Abject. Please refer to Julia Kristeva's book The Horror of Abjection.|||How about 'meloncholic' or 'ordered chaos'...reminds me of Jackson Pollock's paintings. Beauty in tragedy, order in chaos.

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