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I don't believe classical style visual art is overrated. My local art gallery, the AGO, had a large exhibition on Caravaggio a few years ago and I remember seei
by MichaelZuo 4y ago
I don't believe classical style visual art is overrated. My local art gallery, the AGO, had a large exhibition on Caravaggio a few years ago and I remember seeing the shocked expressions on the majority of the visitors.
- pfannkuchen 4y agoThere is social pressure to have this reaction to appear cultured, which is a bit of a confounder. Not knocking the skill involved, being a high fidelity human rendering engine takes a lifetime of dedication as well as a base level of natural talent which very few possess.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI feel pretty confident in my ability to see through people that are faking it. Maybe I am exaggerating my perceptiveness, but being shocked by Caravaggio paintings is not at all uncommon.
- intelVISA 4y agoI liken camera to art as (recent) ML is to code. The machine may threaten to usurp the mass market but the few, skilled organics will always, hopefully, have artisanal works to sell.
- dagw 4y agohad a large exhibition on Caravaggio What is interesting and telling is that they showed a 'name' like Caravaggio, and not any of the countless contemporary painters who are every bit is technically skilled as Caravaggio was, and perfectly capable of emulating his style. If the classical visual style was still relevant in itself, every art gallery would be showing off those contemporary artists.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoWhich 'contemporary artists' still paint in the classical style? I can't think of any.
- dagw 4y agoGo visit some of the top art academies around the world. There are still schools out there training people in the classical styles. The fact that you can't really think of any artists or ever see their work out in the world kind of proves my points.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoSome of it must have been uploaded onto the internet. Are you sure there aren't any examples you can link?
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agohttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/contemporary-classical-painting-is-still-growing_b_3370484 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/contemporary-classical-painti... However, I've not got a horse in this "classical is overrated" race.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThanks for the link.
- Bran_son 4y agoBy this standard, Beethoven's 9th Symphony is also no longer "relevant". The first to do something are remembered, those who come after must be significantly better or different to be recognized. If someone wants to see Caravaggio's style, they are likely to simply see Caravaggio - it's just name recognition, nothing to do with the "relevancy" of the style itself, whatever that means (Popularity? Or a self-fulfilling justification for whatever style the art world elite is pushing?) And there are in fact newer artists with name recognition that painted in a representational style (but not the exact same style), e.g. Dali, Frazetta, Giger, Beksiński.
- dagw 4y agoYou're missing my point. People like Beethoven because it's Beethoven, they're on the whole not interested in new music that sounds a bit like Beethoven. If you're a contemporary musician and composer you're going to have a very hard time making a successful career out of composing and performing new music in the classical and romantic style.
- Bran_son 4y agoI thought we were talking about relevancy of the style, not how difficult it is to make a living competing with Beethoven. If people still turn up in droves to perform and listen to Beethoven, that seems very "relevant" to me.
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