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Although I am not an artistic person, I love art. I really enjoy to spend a couple of hours in a museum, particularly if it is early in the morning and the exhibitions aren’t crowded. I’m particularly passionate about Modern art, so period between 1700-1800, and the way the artists clashed with the spread photography and began to represent also poor people. I will focus on picture in the following because is the art that I better know.
I appreciate Impressionism, but my absolute favourite painters are Courbet and Munch. Courbet is the most famous Realist painter and it is the first one who started to represent the plebs, for example in his ‘The Stonebreaker’, and for this reason he was excluded by the canon exhibitions and created his personal one. Moreover, he was an eccentric character that I find fascinating, let think about his own self-portrait he named ‘The fool’.
Munch, on the other hand, was a more conceptual painter and I love his simple figures and powerful concepts, let think about his ‘Scream’, seen as an environmental critic.
About the modern art paintings I don’t like them very much, mostly because I don’t understand them. The last years paintings are conceptual ones and, for this reason, I find that it is difficult that people who haven’t studied specifically art or art’s history are able to appreciate them.