Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I’m intrigued by academism. It’s a forgotten bureaucratic, institutional, “scientific” style but a) more historically important styles like Impressionism defined themselves against it b) It was the form of European art that got exported to Asia, leading to fusion with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_
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Matt Bateman
@matt
Is it really forgotten? Bouguereau is my favorite painter.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I’d say so. Try polling people if they’ve heard of him, Van Gogh, neither, or both. I’ve never heard of any of these people and couldn’t identify any works tbf. I’m only aware of it in aggregate as a historical thing
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