5/30/2023 0 Comments The Power of Art by Simon Schama![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The masterpieces they created challenged convention, shattered complacency, shifted awareness, and changed the way we look at the world. The embattled heroes - Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko - each in his own resolute way faced crisis with steadfast defiance. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' With the same disarming force, "Power of Art" jolts us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery, as Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who, under extreme stress, created something unprecedented, altering the course of art forever. Painting became an important means of communication for David since his face was slashed during a sword fight and his speech became impeded by a benign tumour that developed from the wound. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. 'Great art has dreadful manners.' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. In a new book that accompanies a series of BBC-TV documentaries called The Power of Art, Schama examines the life and work of some of the greatest names in Western art history -. At one time, she documented female subjects in strip clubs hers was the intimate perspective of a woman who understood first-hand the vulnerability of real experience, as she describes it an. ![]()
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