In Reply to: RE: A "modern" classical composer... posted by genungo on July 6, 2016 at 09:41:25:
I don't think I misunderstand the spirit of classical art quite that badly. There is a 17th century Dutch landscape painting in the Frick Gallery in New York (can't remember the artist right now, will post the name if I do) It's a bucolic scene of a thatched-roof country cottage with a wrought iron fence in front of it. From a distance of at least 5 feet or so, that fence looks like it was painted in the most astoundingly accurate and meticulous detail. But if you look very closely, you see a technique was used that produced that effect with a relatively few simple but carefully placed brush strokes, and the "realism" dissolves.
The artist there effectively evoked the idea of the peaceful beauty of the countryside, letting the eye see what it wants to see, without coming anywhere near what we might call "photographic" realism or detail but with superb technique just the same. That is the spirit of great art of any era, imo.
Great modern art and music, including abstract art and "atonal" music, can have the same impact.
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Follow Ups
- Oh, dear. - rbolaw 12:13:14 07/06/16 (19)
- RE: Oh, dear. - genungo 12:32:10 07/06/16 (18)
- I don't. - rbolaw 12:41:27 07/06/16 (17)
- Apology... - genungo 12:46:21 07/06/16 (16)
- And any insult was sincerely unintentional. - rbolaw 13:13:54 07/06/16 (15)
- "Many composers today can write convincingly in Mozart's style" - Chris from Lafayette 13:35:30 07/06/16 (14)
- Nah. - rbolaw 13:45:32 07/06/16 (13)
- Well, OK - but remember. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:04:44 07/06/16 (12)
- RE: Well, OK - but remember. . . - rbolaw 17:14:15 07/06/16 (1)
- I knew you were going to bring up Kreisler! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 17:36:33 07/06/16 (0)
- The computer thing has been done. - D Harvey 15:38:49 07/06/16 (9)
- Yeah - I remember that - Chris from Lafayette 17:22:15 07/06/16 (0)
- Spot on, yet again. - rbolaw 16:49:08 07/06/16 (7)
- "I've never thought of any work of art as unsurpassable perfection" - Chris from Lafayette 17:29:40 07/06/16 (6)
- You mean Beethoven influenced later composers??? ;-) - rbolaw 20:29:53 07/06/16 (5)
- Context, context, context - Chris from Lafayette 23:16:52 07/06/16 (4)
- Rochberg didn't really write in Beethoven's or Mahler's styles - rbolaw 06:37:26 07/07/16 (3)
- So Rochberg's music is "an inevitably imperfect copy" therefore "even more disappointing"? - Chris from Lafayette 08:42:37 07/07/16 (2)
- RE: So Rochberg's music is "an inevitably imperfect copy" therefore "even more disappointing"? - rbolaw 10:06:22 07/07/16 (1)
- The thing that makes Rochberg so controversial. . . - Chris from Lafayette 11:30:48 07/07/16 (0)