This could have been written at any point after the 1850s or so.
replyIndeed. Once galleries became significant buyers of art, scandalous art became an attractive thing to produce: it commanded outsized attention.
replyThe dynamics are similar in Twitter today, too.
1850? I wager we could go all the way back if we tried.
reply> (…) the Italian artist and writer Giorgio Vasari,who used it as early as 1530, calling Gothic art a "monstrous and barbarous" "disorder".
Contemporary art is the mirror of our time.
replyIf there is any change I could make to the human personality at large it would be the reflexive opinion that anything you don't understand, or even dislike, is automatically morally wrong.
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