I'm such a conservative in the arts ... I like best the music of Bach and Mozart and representational art from the 15th-19th centuries.
Same here!
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But I can't help feeling that the reason they've remained so famous for so long is because they
are the best!
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At church today there was a poster showing just the hands of God and Adam from Michelangelo's Creation in the Sistine Chapel. Normally, you see that image so often everywhere that it just makes you groan to see it, but today it caught my eye and I thought it's just perfect and genius, no matter how much it gets used and quoted and whatever.
I love Holbein, too! And portrait art in general, really. I never used to be interested in it, until a friend who loves it talked so enthusiastically about it that the next time I was in London I went to the National Portrait Gallery for the first time. I stayed the whole afternoon and went again the next day - I was just swept off my feet with much of the stuff there!
I like the Canadian painting, particularly the way the light of the setting sun is reflected from the clouds and hits the waves, the coast and the tree! It's just a few seemingly crude brush-strokes, but the way the light in the clouds seems to shine and change is so realistic and alive, and I love that!