Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Can paintings be too famous to see?

Will Gompertz investigates in this blog piece whether a painting can be too famous or not to see. Do the backgrounds of famous artworks, such as the famous Mona Lisa, cloud our true opinions of the artwork itself...very Walter Benjamin-esque.





May be worth reading Walter Benjamin too, it's long but it's interesting. To summarise his work, Benjamin asserts that reproduction of artwork destroys the authenticity or 'aura' of the original. By bringing the artwork closer to us with film and pictures, our opinion of the artwork is decided by the reproduction instead of the original, destroying the true reason it was created.



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