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Why would anybody want to see one of the greatest, most influential, most enduring artworks ever created by man? No idea ;)
by msephton 3y ago
Why would anybody want to see one of the greatest, most influential, most enduring artworks ever created by man? No idea ;)
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- globular-toast 3y agoRight? I've seen the Mona Lisa. It didn't add anything to my life. Is it just FOMO?
- nrb 3y agoFor some, I imagine it’s a matter of experiencing and connecting to something of cultural significance. That’s not for everyone, and that’s okay.
- msephton 3y agoI was being facetious, apologies. I have no desire to see the Mona Lisa as it's of no interest to me. But for art that I am interested in, I want to see it in person. There's no need to, of course, but I want to. If you don't want to see art in person, don't worry about what why others might.
- secondcoming 3y agoI never saw the big deal with the Mona Lisa. Sure it’s a painting I could never do myself but why is this one in particular so special? I don’t get it
- nemo44x 3y agoI think it's one of those it's famous because it's famous things. Something has to be the most the special and I guess this particular thing is the thing that gets to be so special.
- msephton 3y agoInterpretations vary but I personally think it's self-perpetuating. In the late 1800s Japan opened up to contact with the West after centuries of being closed to almost everybody, in fact nobody could leave the country and only chosen few could enter. Some of these prints got out and it must have been like seeing an alien artefact for the first time, almost impossible to imagine in this day and age with the internet. But artists like Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Degas, Picasso all scrambled to get hold of them. They were enraptured by this new form of art, many of them painting homages or their own versions of favourites. The Great Wave became famous because of this, and the cycle has repeated since.