Very interesting thread, I like most works here. However I believe that everyone here tends to mythicize the artists.
This Nerdrum is quite interesting sometimes. Others I don’t see the point copycatting again and again well known classical styles with modern themes besides the technical virtuosity.
Dalí was a genius as a painter but a clown as a salesperson of his own art. I will not overemphasize too much his own circus’ show.
The scene relating how the presence of the paintings “in the flesh” makes you cry just because the hands of the artist/deity were there before makes me question how much the emotion comes from the work itself or from the environmental bullshit.
In other words, how many people would (and in fact did) eat shit signed by Picasso.
BTW, here three works that I like (Miró, Goya, Schiele):
