> Penthouse decorations are a poverty compared to a peasant walking daily under the stone arcades to the marketplace, or children witnessing daily the blacksmith work magic with iron and flame.
Ah yes, the good old days, where peasants had so much art available around them. Signature furniture, sculptures, collector items of nowadays don…
> Penthouse decorations are a poverty compared to a peasant walking daily under the stone arcades to the marketplace, or children witnessing daily the blacksmith work magic with iron and flame.
Ah yes, the good old days, where peasants had so much art available around them. Signature furniture, sculptures, collector items of nowadays don't compare to his walk from the boonies to an unsanitary marketplace... The irony of opening up with a critique of rationalism and then proceeding to rationalize the "golden past" for art. Art! The immense abundance, quality, diversity and knowledge of art and its democratization that we have in modern times!
> Penthouse decorations are a poverty compared to a peasant walking daily under the stone arcades to the marketplace, or children witnessing daily the blacksmith work magic with iron and flame.
Ah yes, the good old days, where peasants had so much art available around them. Signature furniture, sculptures, collector items of nowadays don't compare to his walk from the boonies to an unsanitary marketplace... The irony of opening up with a critique of rationalism and then proceeding to rationalize the "golden past" for art. Art! The immense abundance, quality, diversity and knowledge of art and its democratization that we have in modern times!