Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
History develops, art stands still.