Very interesting - thanks for the lesson and links. I know so little about art - I wish I got “it” more. Been to many famous art museums - I’ve often felt that I don’t appreciate the works at the level the artists intended. Guess I’m a slightly over educated peasant
My feeling about art is, it *may* be possible to study the *intent* of the artist, although that usually means studying the interpretation of the intent by relying on the purported ESP of some academic, but art is only art to those experiencing it if it moves ya. If I wind up ever going overseas in my even older old age, I want to visit the Tate Gallery in the UK, and the Uffizi (for Michelangelo's Doni Tondo) and Sistine Chapel.