Thanks for the heads up on this documentary. I will look it up and let you know what I think. As a visual artist, Iād like to see what happened in our history and to see images that I have not seen before.
Sure, art is just "pretty things" to some, and "in the eye of the beholder" to others, but art is a representation of who and what we are at a moment in time. It represents the vision of one person at one moment in time, based on that person's experience, intellect, prejudices, opinions, dreams...and so much more.
Certainly, we could live without art, but we would be much poorer for it, for art is equal parts beauty, soul, and emotion. All of those things, when combined by people who can do so with skill, talent, and vision, enrich our existence and as well as those of generations yet to come.
Many of the soldiers in the "Monuments Men" were actual artists and historians who recruited into the army specifically for this purpose.
By the bye, the Nike (Greek for "victory" -- "winged" is actually a tad redundant) or something very similar to it, rested in the palm of the hand of the statue of Athena on the Acropolis (before it was all looted and all blown to Zeus in the wars of the 16th -- 17th C.)
Thanks for the heads up on this documentary. I will look it up and let you know what I think. As a visual artist, Iād like to see what happened in our history and to see images that I have not seen before.
Sure, art is just "pretty things" to some, and "in the eye of the beholder" to others, but art is a representation of who and what we are at a moment in time. It represents the vision of one person at one moment in time, based on that person's experience, intellect, prejudices, opinions, dreams...and so much more.
Certainly, we could live without art, but we would be much poorer for it, for art is equal parts beauty, soul, and emotion. All of those things, when combined by people who can do so with skill, talent, and vision, enrich our existence and as well as those of generations yet to come.
Many of the soldiers in the "Monuments Men" were actual artists and historians who recruited into the army specifically for this purpose.
By the bye, the Nike (Greek for "victory" -- "winged" is actually a tad redundant) or something very similar to it, rested in the palm of the hand of the statue of Athena on the Acropolis (before it was all looted and all blown to Zeus in the wars of the 16th -- 17th C.)