RE: Art in decadence?
November 7, 2022 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2022 at 1:13 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 7, 2022 at 10:00 am)Macoleco Wrote: It seems to me some of you believe that Realistic Painting evokes no emotion or lacks symbolism.
Vermeer paintings indeed had a tone of realism, but they also portrayed a message of Vermeer's life, and personal life.
The kind of paintings that talk to you, and even by staring at them for hours you feel there is an undescribable message or meaning.
Vermeer objective was not to create "realistic images/pictures" of his era. His paintings also have a "subjective" aspect to them.
What do you want to dictate what people will like in art? Like in the Soviet Union. I remember watching a clip in black and white in some documentary form Soviet TV how they berate on Western art. They showed paintings by Salvador Dali and said how Western art is sick and decadent, while the real art are portraits of Lenin.
In the West, nobody is forcing you to like anything.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
