Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
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