Did you know cathedrals used to be lavishly painted and colourful in the middle ages?
Postmodernism. When you're so intimidated by history's earnest splendor that you neuter it with garish consumerist irony.pic.twitter.com/hQkexQiNUp
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Ha, I think that's one of our local traditional nativity scenes, which go back to the XIX century. Garish, sure, but before postmodernism.
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It's almost as much of a kitschy, overcoloured eyesore as it was when they built it. https://churchpop.com/2015/02/23/medieval-cathedrals-color/ … And insides were way worse.
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It's like this with old Greek statues too. Oh the marble majesty! Used to be brightly painted, actually. Kinda vulgar to modern tastes,even.
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Thanks for the love
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Or, y'know, people just like different things than you do. Human variation and all
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I see a trend in sceptics being very anti contemporary art. Art was always "contemporary", there has been always good, bad, over&underrated
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The real irony is that the Catholic Church would've loved it!
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This is lovely. Where is it?
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