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Art History
The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts including painting, sculpture and architecture. Considered encyclopedically, the history of art is an attempt to survey art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods by their distinguishing features. This is undertaken by people and institutions with diverging goals, but whose efforts interrelate, including: academic art historians, museum curators, auction house personnel, private collectors, and religious adherents. Given these agendas, it is unsurprising that there are many ways of structuring a history of art, as
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The first step in any encounter with art is to do nothing, to just watch, giving your eye a chance to absorb all that's there. We shouldn't think "This is good," or "This is bad," or "This is a Baroque picture which means X, Y, Z." Ideally, for the first minute we shouldn't think at all. Art needs time to perform its work on us.
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― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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The saints are the people, weak and imperfect like ourselves, who said a total "Yes" to God's love. It is not that they were strong enough or virtuous enough to win his love, because that love is always freely given, but only those we call saints actually did that blessed taking, accepting the reality of being loved with all its consequences. ~Sister Wendy's Book of Saints
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