How Painting Liberates us from the Shackles of the Senses

How does Schiller's insight into the sublime afford us a master key to unlock the secrets to truly classical painting vs art which merely shackles us to the cage of sensualism. Many examples of similar themes tackled by various artists are explored in order to evaluate how ever higher degrees of playful ambiguity and metaphor are expressed in painting. The question of how painting can serve the role of liberating society from the dual trap of believing in abstract ideas detached from matter on the one side and sensualism detached from ideas on the other is explored. Supplementary Reading Material: VELASQUEZ’S LAS MENINAS: THE CREATIVE PRINCIPLE vs THE OLIGARCHICAL PRINCIPLE by PIERRE BEAUDRY http://amatterofmind.org/Pierres_PDFs... ILYA REPINE AND THE IRONIC RANGE OF THE NOOSPHERE by PIERRE BEAUDRY http://amatterofmind.org/Pierres_PDFs... OF THE SUBLIME by FRIEDRICH SCHILLER https://archive.schillerinstitute.com... LETTERS ON THE AESTHETICAL EDUCATION OF MAN by FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1793) http://public-library.uk/ebooks/55/76...