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Picturesque, an Uncommon card
Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Picturesque quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Picturesque card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term "picturesque" needs to be understood in relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: the ______ and the sublime.
Answer
beautiful. The term "picturesque" needs to be understood in relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: the beautiful and the sublime. From the Picturesque article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in ____ by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.
Answer
1780s. Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. From the Picturesque article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century.
- The term "picturesque" needs to be understood in relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: the beautiful and the sublime.
- By the last third of the 18th century, Enlightenment and rationalist ideas about aesthetics were being challenged by accounts of the experiences of beauty and sublimity that involved non-rational elements.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Picturesque article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Picturesque
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Picturesque (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Claude Lorrain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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