Are Today’s Portraitists Better Than the Old Masters?

Re:Are Today’s Portraitists Better Than the Old Masters? by boppo1 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:41AM (#30273929)

> There is in fact a subtle classicism to his work.

Please enlighten me. The man made literal scribbles:

Anyone with functioning eyes ought to watch that and be able to immediately see that the "expert" is not wearing any clothing. They've got classical violin music playing to add a sense of prestige, it's grotesque. It would be more appropriate to accompany the video with "zen music"[0], the musical analog to twombly's work: https://youtu.be/uOOtJcWAk-A

[0]: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13248549

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Re:Are Today’s Portraitists Better Than the Old Masters? by noema on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:23AM (#30284021)

His work is often read as an archaic, pre-verbal poetics of the classical world: https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-m... The scribblings draw from the walls of Pompeii, soft whites and blood reds evoke a certain Greco-Roman pallette etc. Scribbles but more than scribbles.

He was actually criticized for not adhering to postmodernist scripture: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/10...

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