20190710

Okay, so apparently I have lost touch with the impressionists. I remember when I was younger, I used to love the bright colors and the sweeping sensations of their paintings, but now I find myself utterly disillusioned. I guess the novelty has worn off. I find myself loving and craving new things and learning about them rather than revisiting old ones. Curse the fact that I'm not sentimental. I just can't seem to connect with it. It's the same way I can't connect with Picasso. I did find an artist I liked in the Musee D'Orsay, though! Camille Pisarro. He was impressionist and neo-impressionist and I love the way he renders light * shadow. I guess that's a theme I find myself drawn to now. It's what I liked about Dora Maar, too. I mean Pisarro can backlight a tree like nobody's business!
Maybe I'm just stuck on contemporary art because it branches way further beyond stylistic rendering... I mean I get that it was completely revolutionary in style and subject matter (object matter?) but I can't see much beyond that.
Also, people are waiting in a line of their own creation to take a shitty ass backlit photo in front of the clock face and are getting made when, like, little kids go up to it and look out it and ruin their photo. It's just so bizarre to me.
Update: I love symbolism! Although I do acknowledge that it resuses classical style and imagery, they're so much more alive than Renaissance and Baroque work. I imagine there's some sort of worldly conflict that sparked it, and now I want to know even more about Symbolism and its ties or lack thereof to classical imagery. Anyways, symbolism is the best, and Rodin's doors of hell (i think? my memory is fuzzy) sculpture is badass.