Dionysian
Wild
Wild adjective - Living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans.
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Romanticism and Enlightenment are also tied to the Dionysian (wild, visceral, ornate) and Apollonian (restrained, cerebral, classicist) ideals of Nietzschean aesthetics in the arts.
Source: Romanticism Versus Enlightenment -
He starts his career in philosophy with the description of the Apollonian (cerebral, classicist, logical, restrained) and Dionysian (wild, visceral, hammy, hotblooded, hedonistic) archetypes in the Birth of Tragedy (and recommending a Dionysian lifestyle).
Source: Creator / Friedrich Nietzsche
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