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la invention de lo classico

 Akyles D Bonet Santiago The classics art first glance seems to have their focus around grandeur and ornateness. Most of the ones shown in the lesson have religious purpose and imagery or displays. Their size is seen as a marble of engineering for the time when they were built. Some of them have been through hell, literally, disfigurement, fires and explosions and that's only the Greek ones, they say the path to heaven goes through hell and with the size of the cathedrals and their ornate and extravagant styles they are godly art pieces (pardon the dad joke). love the ornateness hate the size, their just too big . . .  never thought I'd be the one to say that. . . anyways.  The size is ridicules to me because the amount of new technology that was created and imagined for each individual project or just a specific part of them is unnecessary, amazing but unnecessary. the classics, from what I understand, are iconic monuments and symbols of their respective eras, locations, cultu

arte abstracto

Akyles D. Bonet Santiago  Jackson Pollock, seen as a pioneer of abstract art. the style is characterized, at least by its leading figures, in maturity as the art had, or I guess didn't have any true depth or central point of view. It's supposed to represent a type of freedom, but I don't see it. whenever I'm in a room with abstract art on its walls all I see and look for are the patterns made incidentally by the artist in their attempt to not make one (pattern) or a pattern made by the laws of physics that, if I find a pattern turn the supposed display of freedom to a horrifying reminder that all things are governed by something no matter how free they may perceive themselves to be.  All the existential dread and edgy emo mentality aside I do like the type of abstract paintings that have to do with color being the main topic of inquiry and experimentation during the creation of the painting because I've no idea how one makes an inquiry into color with maturity throu