... that art can be a source of new values that create a beautiful illusion or joy and celebration which overrides some of the realities of life, like pain, suffering and uncertainty. John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found ... and shudders over the icy cleft that it has cloven, as if partly wondering at its own recent grave, and partly dying of very fatigue after its hard-won victory; we shall be, or we ought to be, moved by a totally different impression of loveliness from that which we receive ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate