Posted on 12/28/2017 9:32:36 AM PST by Kaslin
"On or about December 1910, human character changed," wrote British novelist Virginia Woolf in 1924. "I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that. But a change there was, nevertheless."
Woolf's famous quote refers specifically to an exhibition of naturalist paintings. More broadly, 1910 marked the approximate date of a huge shift in the world of art: out went the traditional goal of creating beauty, replaced by the modernist goal of promoting ideals and imparting a political message, especially one that would épater la bourgeoisie (shock the burgers). Toward this end, rudeness and ugliness are inherent in the progressive goal of irritating, disturbing, and teaching.
Italy, home of the Renaissance, widely considered the apogee of artistic achievement, offers a striking place to observe this contrast, as my recent travel to twelve Italian towns brought home.
Since the Grand Tour began in the seventeenth century, the traveler's dominant experience in Italy has been to go and immerse oneself in its beauty. In part, it's the country's natural attractions, from rolling hillside vineyards to dramatic seaside vistas. But mostly it's the Italians' artistic accomplishments: Roman statuary and ruins, Renaissance piazzas and paintings, Venetian canals and bridges. The lesser arts also hold their own: pastas, sauces, and olive oils pay homage to the fine art of cooking, celebrated nowadays even in gas station stops along limited-access highways. Like innumerable foreigners before me, I have been captivated since my first visit in 1966 by the classic Italian devotion to beauty, by the historic areas and their remarkable cultivation of beauty.
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“These people are completely unhinged.”
When you’re that stupid, all you can do is guess and take instructions. You don’t really know what has value and what doesn’t.
“. And that Dali made Christ on the cross look like the opening scene from Star Wars.”
Have you seen Dali’s version of the Ascension?
“There’s been no beautiful art since Courbet, nor beautiful music since Wagner, nor great literature since Twain.” - said every f****ng moron on the planet.
Monet supposedly had cataracts affecting his light and color perception.
It might not be quite so bad if the new art at least showed some capacity for creativity and originality - but within the last week alone we’ve been treated to a “live” TV recreation of the classic “A Christmas Story” so bad that one Freeper posted that only five minutes in he wanted to shoot his eye out, and to a reinterpretation of the classic “Nutcracker” reworked for a cast of “poor” people because the “artists” thought it was unjust that the original took place in a grand, comfortable house with rich subjects - it would be so nice if the modern untalented, unimaginative art types would at least leave the old masterpieces alone.....
“Monet really wasn’t very talented”
That’s an internet gem.
What’s next, the Gift of the Magi featuring the Kardashian family?
So Morty Seinfeld was right. The impressionists needed glasses.
Don’t put ideas in people’s heads.....
Morty Seinfeld was right about everything. After all, he was the #1 Dad.
It’s the leftists in this Venice that make me nauseous. My kid went to a Venice, CA Preschool.
Art is in a state of glut and as such, is useless. Anyone can do museum quality modern art now with the digital tools we now have. It is no longer a matter for experts, it’s just too common. And anyhow, the sort of esthetic that propelled abstract expressionism in the post WWI era is now obsolete. There will never be another Andy Warhol. Romanticism is dead.
bkmk
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