/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>>1915708
you seem very knowledgeable and I agree with a lot of your points. I think later Greek scultpure took this idealism to caricature-like heights, especially in the unreal proportions of things like the Farnese Hercules sculpture, making his body 8 or 9 heads tall. I think this detracts from the art, as well as the system of "copy and pasting" the Venus de Milo face as the quintessential Greek ideal onto countless sculptures and paintings. I think it is lazy copying of classic exterior forms without any attempt to understand the philosophy behind them, and I think this is why neo-classicism left such a bitter taste in the mouth of the Romantics.

Of course there is much to learn from ancient Greek art and aesthetics, but I feel it has to be learned and used in new ways, not merely copied, and merged with the Romantic sentiment of individual experience and the sublime.

>As for the Renaissance specifically, although it garnered much attention at its unearthing in 1506, very few attempted suffering to that degree in their works, and the theorists of the time favored graceful ease (although later artists would break this) and a more restrained grandeur to this kind of suffering.

Agree completely. The Early Renaissance paintings of the Suicide of Lucretia do nothing for me, its the equivalent imho of a fashion model posing with a knife. There is no emotion.