Thanks for this re-issued essay. Indeed, Artists can, should and do constitute new ways to see, new tales to see and read, new sounds to hear. There is a feed-back loop into society as well, for we create new ways to see because we are seeing them ourselves. Casper David Friedrich went out walking in the evenings and dawns, while Courbet and Monet looked at the forests and fields in a different way, because the broader society urged another way of experiencing. Their contributions looped back into society, so that viewers experienced dawn and flower fields afresh. TANGO !
It is a mighty debate as to whether this compositional new form, new constitution by David, signaling Virtue of Loyalty to State, as shown in loyalty to father, had fine effect in 1785, or bad effect on political and violent events of the Revolution and then Napoleonic Wars, followed by re-constitution of Monarchy, more wars to lead to others.
Regardless of the debate issues, all must admit that potent new images like The Oath impact society.
Another example might be Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, 1830, for the July Revolution, Bourbon to Orlean, that led to the 1848 Revolution, that led to new State Unification Wars, 1850's-1870, to our super duper lovely Globalist Wars.
We may ask: Liberty leading where.. ?
This reveals another aspect of new constitutions in the visual arts and their rules. We should not underestimate these visual powers. Liberty of Mind, of Spirit, into states of spiritual Freedom and Grace seems such a better path; thank you, Newman, Krasner, Pollack, Styll and romantics, expressionists all.
NOTE that the Bolsheviks led the People to Liberty .... they said liberty, but the path led to destruction, death, idiocy and misery for 3 generations of monstrous 'democracy', as Stalin titled it.
In the 1930's, the National Socialists waved banners reading, "WE THE PEOPLE".
Socio-Politico images can inspire monstrous, hideous outcomes
I had a colleague in Phila in the 70's who I adored. A complete art scholar, and he loved Poussin, so try as I may I have never been able to 'get' what is so great about him. This article helps me to understand a little better. My colleague was a real Classicist, while I was always on the Romantic side of art history.
Thanks for this re-issued essay. Indeed, Artists can, should and do constitute new ways to see, new tales to see and read, new sounds to hear. There is a feed-back loop into society as well, for we create new ways to see because we are seeing them ourselves. Casper David Friedrich went out walking in the evenings and dawns, while Courbet and Monet looked at the forests and fields in a different way, because the broader society urged another way of experiencing. Their contributions looped back into society, so that viewers experienced dawn and flower fields afresh. TANGO !
It is a mighty debate as to whether this compositional new form, new constitution by David, signaling Virtue of Loyalty to State, as shown in loyalty to father, had fine effect in 1785, or bad effect on political and violent events of the Revolution and then Napoleonic Wars, followed by re-constitution of Monarchy, more wars to lead to others.
Regardless of the debate issues, all must admit that potent new images like The Oath impact society.
Another example might be Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, 1830, for the July Revolution, Bourbon to Orlean, that led to the 1848 Revolution, that led to new State Unification Wars, 1850's-1870, to our super duper lovely Globalist Wars.
We may ask: Liberty leading where.. ?
This reveals another aspect of new constitutions in the visual arts and their rules. We should not underestimate these visual powers. Liberty of Mind, of Spirit, into states of spiritual Freedom and Grace seems such a better path; thank you, Newman, Krasner, Pollack, Styll and romantics, expressionists all.
NOTE that the Bolsheviks led the People to Liberty .... they said liberty, but the path led to destruction, death, idiocy and misery for 3 generations of monstrous 'democracy', as Stalin titled it.
In the 1930's, the National Socialists waved banners reading, "WE THE PEOPLE".
Socio-Politico images can inspire monstrous, hideous outcomes
I had a colleague in Phila in the 70's who I adored. A complete art scholar, and he loved Poussin, so try as I may I have never been able to 'get' what is so great about him. This article helps me to understand a little better. My colleague was a real Classicist, while I was always on the Romantic side of art history.