Why does classical art suck?

it was the beginning of Hallmark-esque sentimentality, cheap aesthetic just for the sake of being enjoyed and being popular. Like cheap homogenous radio pop songs, it takes lots of skill and brilliance to create, and the end product doesn't further the art at all and is ultimately forgettable. It's superficial.

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>>1455066
How is modern art better?

>>1455076
Well, at least it's challenging.

>>1455143
I'm just curious because I hear a lot of people say modern art is better, but I don't really see it. I agree with your analysis of classical art tho

>>1455076
It's a more vital expression of the emotion that Picasso sought to portray. Rather than an eye pleasing and distant portrayal of suffering this one is immediate, with the fragmented reality better speaking to our own experience of suffering. It's just as intrusive and off-putting as our own misery.

>>1455160
>muh feelings

>>1455211
Yes, that is what art is about. Good observation.

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You mean neo-classical?

Don't you go hating on my boy Lysippos

>Why does [neo-]classical art suck?

I dunno, you tell me. Do you think its sucks? Have people been telling you it sucks?

I think it serves a purpose.

It doesn't unless it's kitsch or fawning over the exotic or the ancient or the sexual

Medieval art is best art though

>>1455226
What kind of medieval art? Can you post an example?

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>>1455231
not him, but have an example

>>1455242
>reee outta my way, peasant fucking shits

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>>1455231
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>>1455231
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>>1455231
rt

>>1455048
How many of those paintings were composed would definitely feel somewhat artificial or not that relatable to modern sensibilities. The rendering is gunning for realism, but it gives the effect of actors on a theater stage where everything is posed just right, instead of feeling like something that could actually happen.

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>>1455231
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>>1455048
This is not classical art.

This a romantic painting of Julius Caesar and Vercingetorix.

You're not even smart enough to know what classical art is.

Idiot.

>>1455076
Because the middle class hates it.

>>1455076
it's not hallmark-esque sentimentality

>>1455217
no it isn't and your analysis of picasso was poor

>>1455225
neo-classical is a specific style of art to which OP's painting doesn't belong

>>1455329
it's classical in the sense that academic art built upon classical precedence in rendering human form, expression, and narrative

it's not really romantic though

>>1455048
Because people that haven't seen a YouTube video explaining some pieces of modern art that you now claim to be your favorite pieces enjoy "classical art" (a term I assume you chose based on your ignorance of "classical" music) and as you feel superior to these people you cannot like what they like.

>>1455066
You clearly don't understand the difference between kitsch and something whose superficial beauty doesn't hinder its value as art. It's a lot easier to at least claim to enjoy "challenging" art, as few people enjoy it and if you can see one remedying trait in it you can be "the one" who enjoys it. Finding a deeper appreciation of pieces that have mass appeal is much more difficult, and likening pre-20th century art to modern pop music is laughable.

>>1455359
Lionel Noel Royer
1899

This painting is very romantic in its interpretation of an historical event.

>>1455356
it doesn't belong to Classical either

>>1455369
being romantic and being Romantic aren't the same thing. romanticism is a style (in contrast to classicism/classical art)

>>1455377
no point correcting a falsity with another falsity

To anybody that attempts to lump in cubism with today's """"modern art""""": fuck you.

>>1455160
So he was not an artist but a philosopher

he created garbage and convinced the gullible like you that it's a masterpiece

>>1455590
>Picasso was not an artist

Enough 4chan for today

>>1455076
Say what you will but guys like Picasso and Dali could easily paint realits paintings as they received classical training. They just didn't bother. So they weren't talentless hacks.

>>1455283
>10 minutes into Vespers and Chill and he gives you this look

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Ernst Fuchs is the apex of Western visual art. Everything done before him converges to him and everything done after him diverges from him.

>>1455381
I never claimed the OP picture was Neo-Classical

I assumed that's what he meant howver

>>1456598
shut the fuck up

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Did art in the middle ages accurately portray the mentality of the people

Like here, Romanos Diogenes has just lost the bulk of the Byzantine armed forces and basically opened Anatolia for rape season, been captured and is being stepped on by Alp Arslan and he just looks disinterested

Alp Arslan has just had a major victory over the romans and is humiliating their emperor and he looks like he'd rather be home

>>1456788
no

>>1456760

no

>>1455066

That's a really good comparison