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What else is there to see in art?

2021-01-16T00:34:43.513Z


In this dead-end labyrinth in which aesthetics moves, it seems that everything is legal, provided that the primary impulse is to cause surprise or scandal.


Throughout the history of art, the representation of the human figure has been the main source of inspiration for artists, from cave painting, through Phidias, to Picasso and so on.

But from the fifties of the last century the human body of flesh and blood has been included by the latest avant-gardes in their

performances

and installations as a found object in the manner of Duchamp.

In this labyrinth with no way out in which aesthetics moves, it seems that everything is legal, provided that the primary impulse of art consists in causing surprises ...

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