(June 1, 2022 at 11:24 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think that’s something everyone appreciates about. Art, which there is more of today, providing that exact experience to, to a wider and more diverse audience…….than ever before in the history of mankind.
Truly amazing, right? Or is it weak sad shitpoop, on account of how Michael Angelo didnt order a slave to mix the paint that an indentured servant applied according to an actual paint by the numbers grid on someone else’s ceiling?
Not sure what your point is other than to reject romantic notions of solo genius...which no one is doing. Until the modern period (not to be confused with Modernism) the major artists had, at the hieght of their popularity had lots of workers from various stations in life. So what?
And, yes, there are many excellent contemporary artists. But I have only ever seen one Od Nierdrum paintin in real life and reproductions do no justice. And that is because making a good oil painting is intensely time consuming.
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