Appreciated you pointing out the hypocrisy in the lingering WOKE mentality that informs art historical analysis as evident in the misguided wall label text you reference. I also enjoyed your perspective on Netherlandish painting and your restatement of Dennis Dutton's appraisal of the majority of "contemporary art historians as having succumbed to a "delusion" that art is entirely socially constructed, thereby missing the deeper, evolutionary, and pleasurable foundations of artistic creation." (The Art Instinct)
With all too many people, their hypocrisy is so glaring it cannot possibly escape them, which means they have no problem with it (though, being hypocrites, they will criticize hypocrisy in others). Of course, if hypocrisy is seen as a means to an end, like any other means, that tracks.
A good photographer could do something with asparagus, and it might be a great photograph, but it could never be what this painting is. It would always be a machine-made image, not the creation of human hands. I don't see this picture as a reproduction at all--I see it as a bundle of asparagus literally created by Coorte, which does not exist in nature but on his canvas. It is *his* asparagus.
By the time of Reynolds, Dutch art was past its prime, and he was a man of fashion and of his time. However, the comment about the white satin being well painted but done too often is like saying a virtuoso singer blows the roof off the opera house but does it too often. If you're going to be condescending like that, keep your mouth shut unless your rendition of satin is just as good.
Appreciated you pointing out the hypocrisy in the lingering WOKE mentality that informs art historical analysis as evident in the misguided wall label text you reference. I also enjoyed your perspective on Netherlandish painting and your restatement of Dennis Dutton's appraisal of the majority of "contemporary art historians as having succumbed to a "delusion" that art is entirely socially constructed, thereby missing the deeper, evolutionary, and pleasurable foundations of artistic creation." (The Art Instinct)
With all too many people, their hypocrisy is so glaring it cannot possibly escape them, which means they have no problem with it (though, being hypocrites, they will criticize hypocrisy in others). Of course, if hypocrisy is seen as a means to an end, like any other means, that tracks.
A good photographer could do something with asparagus, and it might be a great photograph, but it could never be what this painting is. It would always be a machine-made image, not the creation of human hands. I don't see this picture as a reproduction at all--I see it as a bundle of asparagus literally created by Coorte, which does not exist in nature but on his canvas. It is *his* asparagus.
It's a reality unto itself.
That Coorte looks more Spanish than Dutch. Superb.
By the time of Reynolds, Dutch art was past its prime, and he was a man of fashion and of his time. However, the comment about the white satin being well painted but done too often is like saying a virtuoso singer blows the roof off the opera house but does it too often. If you're going to be condescending like that, keep your mouth shut unless your rendition of satin is just as good.