Greenburg says that you have to forget everything when viewing art. It is the final product that you are to see. That is it. Writing about visual art is tougher than writing about music because music is there on paper. The notes are laid out for you to write about. Art has no path to completion.
Modern art doesn’t have to prove itself, modern artists have proved themselves.
What makes a painting fail or not? It has to fit. A failed drawing has something that doesn’t fit. When you look at it, it doesn’t feel right to look at.
Giottos rebirth to art, revived art with perspective. He added depth to his art. Todays art is influenced even today.
As Giotto added depth to his drawings, Ghiberti added depths to his beliefs when he created his North door panels. Donatello use of contrapposta gives his Davids piece energy showing him leaning on one hip. Uccelo gave a new perspective on the art of animals in his painting. It shows the horses falling back into the drawing. Masaccio added drama to his paintings.
Chiaroscuro is a style of painting that introduced light aspects to artworks. Piero della Francesca picked one source of light and showed a depth on all the objects of the painting with shading.
Sfmumato to give form into paintings. Leonardo da Vinci disected human corpses to see how the body worked. He utilized math and science in his works.
