THE ART OF MODERNITY – FROM OLYMPUS TO A CESSPOOL
THE ART OF MODERNITY – FROM OLYMPUS TO A CESSPOOL

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes a radiography of both fundamental stylistic attitudes of the arts: Classicism and Mannerism - equivalent to daytime and nighttime regime of the image, for the past five centuries.In the creation plan, the two attitudes sat behind the moments of greatness of humanity art, but in the same time of its collapse and decay. The analysis carried out showed that in the last century the balance between the two fundamental attitudes was overthrown in favor of increased tendency for subhuman exploitation, for derisory, for the marginal and for the human animality in the desire to access the success through the ugly aesthetics, promoted by some postmodernism. Contemporary consequence of the beautiful - ugly imbalance, on the one hand led to the enrichment of the means of expression but also caused confusion in the system of values. A re-humanization of art would restore the balance.

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