Monday, January 25, 2010

Do General Criteria Apply in the Evaluation of Paintings?


In order to determine whether general criteria of worth in art, such as Rosenberg's, it is helpful to see how they apply to real paintings, "up close" as it were. A key test case is the painting, "The Burial of Count Orgaz". Check out the background on this painting in Wikipedia.
Click this image for a larger one. Look for a "steeply rising and falling curve" in the lower foreground.

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