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well, i really like the Dutch masters, like Jan van Eyck - and that is part of what the Pre-Raphaelites tried to emulate. i don't know that any of them produced much finer art than those 500 years before them. although the religious subject matter of some of their work might not in some cases be rooted much deeper than appreciation of the past, there's still something to be said of the aspect of the movement that represents a 'return to the traditions of the fathers.' it's not unlike repentance!
i do love how a part of the movement was a rejection of a modern contemporary art that, if more nuanced, was less technically achieved. there's still some benefit to Andy Warhol et al. coming along in the following century and whomping that idea upside the head. today there's still a void that something like these Pre-Raphaelites could fill (i've seen a lot of modern church interiors - quite the abstract/cubist buffet, ugh), but there are artists like Ron Mueck that fill a crossover gap with a painstaking realism echoing classical masters and a more modern approach to subject and composition that is descended from all the minimal, natural, humanist and surreal stylistic revolutions in the art of the last two centuries.
i do love how a part of the movement was a rejection of a modern contemporary art that, if more nuanced, was less technically achieved. there's still some benefit to Andy Warhol et al. coming along in the following century and whomping that idea upside the head. today there's still a void that something like these Pre-Raphaelites could fill (i've seen a lot of modern church interiors - quite the abstract/cubist buffet, ugh), but there are artists like Ron Mueck that fill a crossover gap with a painstaking realism echoing classical masters and a more modern approach to subject and composition that is descended from all the minimal, natural, humanist and surreal stylistic revolutions in the art of the last two centuries.
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yeah he is a bit weird... a lot of his work is nude humans, warts and all but i love how incredibly detailed and realistic they are. that one is less than 2ft tall, but he plays around with scale a lot, like this:
i appreciate the technical craftsmanship that's missing in a lot of "modern" art.
i appreciate the technical craftsmanship that's missing in a lot of "modern" art.
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