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Thanks god we are going to leave behind the so-called modern "The Byzantine period is an example of the past. Here the work
period of human history. In particular, it will be known as the most of art is essentially a symbol and no longer a sign. It intends to
violent and contradictory, in which man fought against his own faith, express a meaning that cannot be expressed by realistic images. A
against himself. The twentieth century gave us two world wars, Byzantine artist would not be preoccupied by a human ideal, but by
Bolshevik revolution, a Cold War and thousands of other "small" divine one. He will not try to show reality, but the truth" (H. Read).
wars and conflicts. Art is the mirror of time, the reflection of society,
isn't it? It has expressed these contradictory times. The so-called For the modern man, philosophy is religion and art is an attempt
"revolution in art" might be just a contradictory expression of "art" to express a mystery, which we do not have to call the truth.
to fit all tastes and serve a few political ideologies. Can the modern Selfish humans replaced faith in god with faith in them-self: "god
product "art" called art? Does this "art" include the term "beauty"? is in Heaven, and I am god on the Earth" (Joseph Stalin) There is,
For Plato, beauty was a opportunity to guide us to contemplate in modern art an element of protest transformed in a period of
positives ideas. transition.

He held that art meant to distract citizens' attention from real Transaction, to what? Some of us would say that we are going
social and political problems. Art is fever of sensuality and takes somewhere, not that we are going from bad to worse. The extreme
away attention from spirituality, the main concept of Christianity. forms of Dada movement, which was a declaration of spiritual
In the modern world, art and beauty begin to opposites. Attacking bankruptcy at the beginning of World War I, and worse followed:
"beauty" results in a fight between aesthetic an moral values. World war II and so on...
Contemporary art, sadly, excludes the term of beauty. Art in general, "Today, the subject of art seems to have suffered a decisive
is like a library with thousands of shelves and millions of books. alteration, or looks to be as it is disappearing. The art still talks
Nobody can read them all. We can read with selective process. If around us, often with a firm decision of talking about nothing"
we want to write a new book, we have to go back to those "old" (gaetan Picon). There are signs of the beginning of a post-modernist
books and refresh our minds with "new", not very old ideas. movement. This movement will close the door behind us all.

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