/lit/ - Literature

>>13457480
>okay. I could say the same about >>13457001
Explain, how does it not just go above basic instinctual and emotional responses?

>see pic related
It is indeed a masterpiece anon but that doesn't mean beauty alone exists.

>then what's the point of >>13456835 (You)? couldn't the artist have written "a woman knighting a man" on a sheet of paper? why make a painting of it at all?

I misunderstand but I shall answer, the same reason why the rapturous sight of the Last Judgement could never be reproduced by mere words (refer to Wagner essay).

>any visual art
Oh okay well that's easy.

>Da Vinci
>Raphael
>Thorvaldsen
>Leighton
>Donatello
>the pre Raphaelite's (It would be cheating to name them individually)
>Titian
>Jacques-Louis David
>Caravaggio
>Rembrandt
>Rubens
>Vermeer
>etc