What's the place of intuition and mathematics when it comes to Art ? Is our perception of beauty (in general) "emprisoned" by the golden ratio ? Would Mona Lisa still be a masterpiece in a different cultural context? What about Jeff Koons's Balloon Dog ?
Is there such as thing as an universal form of beauty ? What do you think ?
Culture is fundamental when it comes to art. Not only that we’re sometimes being told to like some pieces, art sometimes serve a greater purpose like promoting a regime, an ideology. Church’s power, in a way, was linked to art ! The way Jesus was physically depicted as well as the Greco Roman inspiration for major Catholic monuments is much deeper than questions of “Beauty.” There is a profound sense of symbolism that is to be deciphered