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Originally Posted by Le Anh-Huy
What? what do you mean? They weren't supposed to be "technical" at all, but were full of emotion. So how were they in that sense?
I think you might have mistaken that for the "impressionists", who were more interested in technique than anything else.
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I feel the emotion imbibed in their work is heavily objective. It's heavy-handed in evoking specific emotions -- this causes it to border illustration. Durer was a master of highly precise, technical work -- as many Renaissance painters were. Coming out of the Gothic period, being highly technical was all the rage -- painting people in proper perspective and form was a technical achievment that the Renaissance painters mlked for all it was worth.
The Impressionists were very focused on technique, true. But that doesn't make their work technical. But to argue with myself, the roots of realism is in abstraction and a good abstract artist has to understand technical realism to be able to pull off their painterly strokes and to make loose brushstrokes on a painting a powerful piece of subjective art. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't like art that tells me what to feel before I get to feel it myself.
