The Resurrection, Piero della Francesca, 1460
Posted on 09/21/2013 10:12:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dude, it’s even better on acid.
Great painting; great story of the young British soldier who save this from destruction.
It’s “Elvis on velvet” - nothing else is close....
Seriously!
GREATEST is subjective term and should NEVER be confused with "biggest grossing" or "most expensive".
Take a look at the
10 most expensive photos sold (often at auction)
The Billy the Kid photo's value is concentrated in the historical worth, not the "art" of the image.
2 are Cindy Sherman self portraits (or Selfies as the grownups trying to sound hip are calling them today)
The Pond/Moonlight, by Edward Steichen has historical significance and is an "early master". It's also 1 of only 2 prints of the image (both hand-colored). It isn't his greatest work.
3 are contemporary "landscapes" by Andreas Gursky.
One is a plagiarism from a Marlboro cigarette ad.
On the whole, none of them qualify as The Greatest Photo.
If you agree with Huxley here, you can (and should) apply his standard to other art forms. I do.
You have to admit that "Dogs Playing Poker" is right up there, too.
“Modern art” was created to be ANTI-art. Anti-art has now become the dominant art form of the 20th century.
Time for genuine art to return into view.
http://hubpages.com/hub/coolidge-dogs
Coolidge Dogs: A History of the Poker and Pool-Playing Dogs
Unfortunately “GREATEST” is always confused with “biggest grossing” or “most expensive”. Take the recent thread about the Eagles being the reason for a domestic violence incident. Jokes, links to Big Lebowski (”I hate the Eagles!), dissing the Eagles, and one poster near the end persuading us, of God only know what, by citing the number 27 million (copies of greatest hits sold.) Note the sometime weekly threads of highest grossing movies in the past weekend. So what?
If anyone believes any of that, he oughta run to the Amazon bookstore and buy the latest by Danielle Steel (and all the 100 previous “novels” of hers.)
Modern art was created to show that art was more than just illustration, that color and form have their own aesthetics separate from any narrative subject.
The whole subject of this article points to why modern art developed. It says that the greatest painting ever was painted over 500 years ago. Modern art says "Okay, now what?"
Irving Azoff was behind the Eagles marketing/management. He also was at MCA Records when countless scams were run on the books and inventory to appear to have profit and chart success.
That’s a “transformative” work.
I always remember that the lamp post is dead center on that canvas, even though you’d swear it’s to the right.
Right on.
If you have trouble recognizing greatness, it's easier to recognize garbage, which is almost all modern.
Absolutely! Read Thomas Wolf’s The Painted Word. He explains how modern art came about.
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