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Wow. You just jammed a very modern perspective on something that isnt that at all. This is a time where there is no "reproduction" where all art of this sort
by zer00eyz 3y ago
Wow.
You just jammed a very modern perspective on something that isnt that at all.
This is a time where there is no "reproduction" where all art of this sort is local. If we go into the mayor of your city's house, strip out all the reproduction what is going to be left? Is he going to be able to put a picaso on every wall if he wants them enriched?
"Soap opera like" ... Well let's think about this, any one with enough skill is gonna go to Rome, leaving what behind, the B team, the after school special level actors. This is what the B team does with art. It's very good for where and what it is.
The rant about slavery is very contemporary. The narrative that this was created by slaves cause you deemed it lifeless and they were "forced" to do it is... disconnected from history, and art.
- empath-nirvana 3y agoPompeii was a beach resort. You don't go to the Jersey Shore expecting high art.
- asveikau 3y agoBeach resort can mean jersey shore (of which there is both upscale and down market today), could also mean Martha's vineyard. I think Pompeians were wealthy from what I recall reading.
- PeterisP 3y agoThese are the luxury villas of the super-rich Romans, in the best-resort-close-to-Rome where they'd live while they didn't need to be in Rome for political reasons. They definitely could afford the "A team".
- angiosperm 3y agoThe fresco painters probably cycled through Rome to pick up current fashions, then circulated through outlying towns to meet demand for capital styles. A top politician could easily have afforded the best painters, if he cared. The "narrative that this was created by slaves" is just a fact of history. If you don't like how history was, you may direct your attention elsewhere. Ranting about somebody mentioning facts of history you prefer to avoid thinking about is disconnected from life.