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I agree with you that it's not "arty" enough, and even stylized reproductions of reality are not post-modernist or up-their-own-ass-enough to move the dial in t
by douche 11y ago
I agree with you that it's not "arty" enough, and even stylized reproductions of reality are not post-modernist or up-their-own-ass-enough to move the dial in the art world.
But those could be some powerful paintings, if well executed. Even the best photographs feel somewhat sterile - a well done painting can evoke a real sense of emotion and life that's on a different level.
- clock_tower 11y agoThere's still a living tradition of military oil paintings, which have a symbolic or stylized arrangement of realistically-depicted subjects; this is well becoming familiar with. (There's some discussion of this subject in a book on the modern Japanese military by a female German author -- I don't remember the book's name.) Also interesting, for modern war depicted in a traditional style: Afghan war rugs. The classic "red-figure war rugs" depict the Soviet war, but fighting never really stopped in Afghanistan, and neither did depictions of the fighting in traditional Persian-style carpets.