Learning art history has made me appreciate every single generation of artist, even ones I was very biased againstI recommend itand its better than scrolling on the log
>>7961635Yeah I love learning about art history. Lately I’ve been watching a lot of Inspiraggio and other similar youtube channels. Kinda “pop sci” tier in terms of providing a more casual overview, but, they’re fun to listen to at least.Do you have any recommendations for books/documentaries?
>>7961660The go to book most people recommend for anyone looking to get into art history is probably Gombrich's Story of Art and for good reason. Highly respected art historian and the book is very accessible. Its a great introduction and after finishing it you'll have an understanding of what specific periods in art you find interesting and dive deeper into them.As for youtube, I was looking for videos about early Christian art and stumbled upon this guy. If you check his playlist you'll see his videos organized. There's a lot of them and they're pretty high quality. Basically also doing an overview through art history but in video format. Basically free lectures. https://www.youtube.com/@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343/featured
>>7961660I can recommend Peter Robb's "M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio" if you can find a copy of it. I think the author is probably a fag who relishes a bit too much in the homosexual/pederast innuendo embedded in Caravaggio's work, but beyond that it's a very well reasoned and well researched recounting of his life that you won't find anywhere else.
>>7961693>the author is probably a fagRather common in the arts, for some reason…
>>7961698Fags are prob more likely to have the perfect mix of feminine sensibilities and the masculine inherent interest in reality/truth in order to pursue and exceed at art.
Most artists are spoiled limp-wristed gayfags who lived in paradise compared to todays society. I couldn't care less what they thought
>>7962729>the perfect mix of feminine sensibilities and the masculine inherent interest in reality/truthYeah, similar thoughts have occurred to me before. A lot of great artists/philosophers were gay or bi (Warhol, Proust, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Turing...). Many of them seemed to follow the pattern of "clearly a (very) male brain, but with notable feminine leanings in some respects".Pure femininity is too passive to do anything by itself, and pure masculinity is too forceful and unthinking. But when you combine them together in the right proportions then impressive things can happen. Perhaps that holds for other sorts of psychological properties/types as well.
