Sit down and listen to why you are wrong:
First off, the picture on the left if by a renowned late-Romanticist painting by Themistocles von Eckenbrecher, if you had paid attention in an art history class, you would know that.
You would also know that this beautiful scene is iconic in its own way. While the true artists (I.E. those who worked in realism), often painted life and beauty as it was, they still had their own style and recognizable signatures.
For example, look at this:
Any Classicist worth their salt will immediately recognize this as a Rembrandt. Why? Well, for one thing, it’s so famous, because it’s so beautiful, but also because Rembrandt has a style that’s so iconic. It’s in the way he works with shadow and the detail he places in the objects, rather than the subjects.
Undoubtedly, to those who know their art, this is a Caravaggio. Look at these frakking shadows! You get the feeling of the era. They knew that there was light and shadow that needed to be worked with and he chose to lessen his light so as to capture the darkness of the scene.
Working wth the developing angles of the age and placing all the detail into the subjects, showing the importance this era was placing on them.
Reimagining the Romans, focus on the musculature of the subjects, the despair of the women, and the beauty of the building.
What did your artist do? What the bloody hell did Reinhart do? He painted some tiny squares to make a big square that, from a distance, looks like a sea of black. My professor gave me the same bullcac about him using this painting as an example:
Because, “Oh, look, he took different shades of red, blah blah blah!”
How can you compare the beauty of the paintings above with this?
Answer: You can’t, not unless you want to spew out some bullcac about looking into the soul and looking at literal elephant dung on canvas as a statement on society.
Art is beauty. Art is meant to be beauty. Art is not meant to be whatever some idiot can throw together on a canvas or carve out of stone.
I can replicate what that charlatan did with red or black, but I can’t even dream of touching Rembrandt. Art is skill.
Watch this and think before you talk about art again.
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