Beauty Still Matters
Modern man has bought into the broken merchandise of aesthetic subjectivism, after first embracing ethical subjectivism, resulting in countless works of art that deify ugliness as if it were a new form of beauty.
Modern man has bought into the broken merchandise of aesthetic subjectivism, after first embracing ethical subjectivism, resulting in countless works of art that deify ugliness as if it were a new form of beauty.
An important lesson emerges from the mediated individualism of Mazo and Velázquez’s family portraits. Nascent elites inevitably seek recognition by assimilation into, not the total destruction of existing social categories. Just as the monarch and feudalism were replaced by a bourgeois meritocracy, likewise too today’s revolutionary levelers will seek as much to reimagine hierarchy as to abolish it.
In an age where modern art often prioritizes shock value over substance, how can we rediscover the timeless beauty that has inspired generations? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Elizabeth Lev, a renowned art historian with a passion for the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods. This conversation invites you to reconnect with the transformative power of beauty and its vital place in our lives.
The work hypes up a threat of interpersonal violence in pursuit of its own narrow political agenda.
The National Gallery defies the historical relativism for which British galleries have become infamous.
We do not need art critics and experts to educate us. Beauty speaks for itself.
The oil painting was taken along with four others in one of the biggest art heists in Spanish history.
Modernism, in art as in politics, can be integrated into a traditional understanding of man and society’s spiritual dimension.
When a banana duct-taped to a wall is juxtaposed against a Monet, the absurdity of this cultural revolution is starkly apparent.
Puccini was a complex man with a distinctly dark side. This is also reflected in almost all his operas.
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