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criteria for good art The artist had made his wife's dream picture out of marble and was sad when she did not want to live by herself. Therefore, he went to the Temple of Venus to lay down his gifts in front of the local goddess of beauty and love to ask her to be gracious to him. Now he was at home and delighted that the statue was kissing him. It is not known whether he got really happy. "The depiction was so true to nature that the arriving riders had to tame their horses hard because the animals wanted to shy away because they were confused by the sight of the horses on the painting." This is how Giorgio Vasari describes a fresco by Piero della Francesca. Art changes and its forms of representation. Does this also change the criteria for quality? Or do we have to go one step further? Picasso's "Guernica"! I personally never liked this picture, but I knew how it came about and was aware of its meaning for all of us. The painter accused the horrors of civil war and fascism in Spain. That is why I also paid tribute to the work and spoke positively about it. 3 different times, 3 different views of art and quality? Ovidius described love and was banished to Pontus to the barbarians, to the then culturally poor Black Sea, by the Roman emperor. Who was this ruthless monster who banished this poetic soul from art life? Augustus, who is said to have promoted all kinds of art. In his book "Quo vadis?" Henryk Sienkiewicz described the persecution of Christians at the time of Nero and received the Nobel Prize for this distortion of history (there were no Christians at Nero’s time). Different times, different tastes, different criteria for quality? Shouldn't criteria be valid across time? Painting is perhaps the art in which the whole can be made most visible. The first expressions of feeling came into the face in the Gothic, in the Renaissance, it is perspective, and in the Baroque it is light and shadow. But that's the technical development. Quality seems to be something different. The artist must be able to grasp and reflect the spirit of his time so that posterity can get an accurate picture of it and his own contemporaries can identify with it. Back to list!

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