RE: Has art jumped the shark after WWI?
January 6, 2015 at 12:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 12:08 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 5, 2015 at 9:01 am)Alex K Wrote: The old masters in music, painting and sculpture... those were the days! Whatever happened in the 20th century, that instead of magnificent Rembrandts and Michelangelos, we get scribbled pencil lines on 10 foot wide white canvases. Can beauty be outdated? Has art jumped the shark after WWI?
I still think this is beautiful in its own way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8496Rk-Kl8
but will it ever hold a place like a Bach or Händel? And it is positively traditional compared to what came a few decades later...
Weird, it won't let me edit that post to show my reply. But my view is: art exists in order for the artist to convey to the viewer, or listener, or reader, the inspirational emotion. Success happens when the viewer experiences the same emotion as the artist felt when driven to compose his work.