what is it with art, particularly paintings, that draws people to them, enough to pay millions for a single piece and spend time scrutinizing them? cause if i be asked, all this so-called love-affair with art is stupid and exaggerated. art, as far as learning institutions teach me, is something that is housed inside a ludricously large or heavily ornamented expensive looking building dubbed as a museum, has a name which is supposed to be profound, done by an artist whose personal background is(should be) more interesting than his work. it is something you gaze at for a long period of time while nodding and tilting your head at opportune times, while massaging your chin, emitting properly appreciative sounds. it is something to be venerated,something profound, something done by artists that showcases man's finer side, grandeur and all. i don't know, but all of these just sounds pompous to me. as far as i know, most painters back then like da vinci were just commissioned painters, sponsored and hired by merchants to paint family portraits, landscapes or whatever it is that fancies them. they painted for money, not because they sought painting as means of intellectual outlet. they were like mercenaries who fought not because they believed in any cause but because they were paid. so why now, centuries after these paid painters died, do we give presumptuous meanings behind these paintings? why dub them as profound? i just don't get the hype.
a while ago, i woke up early though it's a saturday to haul my ass for make-up classes, as my school dubs them. other class were bearable except for our humanities and arts class. our teacher rambled on for an a hour and half about paintings: da vinci's, caravaggio's, michelangelo's, and raphael's to name a few, their techniques and their lives. the only fact that i appreciated in class was the history part. i found funny the part where i was more interested in the painter's life than his painting itself.
the question as to why people who makes art must be eccentric
unruly, wild and unorthodox geniuses still puzzles me up to this day.
