gonna post my most pretentious (but true) art opinions in this thread. if u follow me you may as well have some ammo for trying to impress art girls or something
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mannerism (school of art that comes right after the renaissance) is actually cooler than the renaissance itself. its one thing to see artists successfully render realistic images, but the philosophical question of what to do once this is achieved is actually much more interesting
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on this note most people have stylized + realistic imagery backwards: we tend to think of realism as more advanced but its actually a higher intellectual endeavor to render an exaggerated or simplified version of reality rather than machine style just copying whats right before u
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so there is actually a case to be made that rather than progressing [towards] the ability of rendering realism, that is actually the point at which we began. many cave paintings are so realistic that we can tell exactly what animals the artists were rendering. [...]
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there are also realistic paintings and images from ancient times. its only later once mankind developed a more advanced spiritual conception of our lives that we were able to create a visual world that exists as an elaboration on our direct sensory data (medieval art for example)
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consider what would be more impressive: teaching a monkey to draw what it sees or teaching a monkey to ideate images. moving on: raphael was a better painter than da vinci. this isnt even up for discussion. he was a better painter than michelangelo as well.
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renoir is easily one of the last great western painters. one of the last guys who could actually paint. like 20 years after he died pollock was showing art in big NYC museums. was a decline far faster than anyone could have ever imagined.
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de chirico is the master surrealist. naturally the public prefers dali who made a few great works but rarely transcended his ‘painting on the side of a 1970s van’ style. orwell hated dali and called his paintings, essentially, fucking disgusting. was correct for the most part.
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for me it goes: Fuchs>venosa>De-Chirico>Ernst>Dali
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