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Art History
The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts including painting, sculpture and architecture. Considered encyclopedically, the history of art is an attempt to survey art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods by their distinguishing features. This is undertaken by people and institutions with diverging goals, but whose efforts interrelate, including: academic art historians, museum curators, auction house personnel, private collectors, and religious adherents. Given these agendas, it is unsurprising that there are many ways of structuring a history of art, as
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رامبراند بر این نظر بود که راهنمای هنرمند فقط باید طبیعت باشد و نه هیچ قاعده و ضابطه ای دیگر، منظور رامبراند از این گفتار همان بود که پیش از وی کاراوادجو و لاستمن نیز بیان داشته بودند: پرهیز از پیکرهای زیبای آرمانی که مطلوب سنت سبک ایتالیا بود، پرهیز از نقاشی هایی که از ایده های تناسب کامل و ترسیم درست فضایل عالی نشأت گیرد. هنرمند باید به دنیای واقعی پیرامون خویش و مردمی که در کوچه و بازار بر گرد خویش می بیند بنگرد و مدل های تابلوهای خویش را از بین مردم ساده و خامدست و معمولی برگزیند نه صرفا به
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― Rembrandt: A Life
― Rembrandt: A Life
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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― The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
― The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
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