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RE: [ART] Julius Kronberg - Decorative Kitsch or High Art? 🎨
The wheel is turning full circle. Figurative art is finding its broader audience again.
But even in the early part of the 20th century, although classical painting had started to fall out of favour with galleries and museums, its influence was still felt in film. Many of the big budget "history" films referenced the earlier history genre paintings. I visited the Franz von Stuck exhibition in Vienna. In part of the exhibition, the demonstrated how the set and even costume designs for film were lifted directly from his work.
Interesting, the relationship between history painting and hollywood history films. Although, most of these films lack the sublime qualities of its pictorial counterparts, apart from Griffith, Lang, Pastrone (Cabiria) and Bertolini (L'Inferno) perhaps. And later Eastern European directors such as Aleksander Ford (Knights of the Teutonic Order), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Pharaoh) and all of the Russian directors who made historical epics of course. That von Stuck exhibition must have been amazing!
I was very happy to have caught the exhibition. He too suffered a decline, but now is being rediscovered and revalued.
Fads and fashions come and go, but real art stands the test of time.