What Does Connoisseurship Mean in the Digital Age?
The Art Angle
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The Importance of Connoisseurship in Painting
In essence yes. But again, I would also say that we have to understand that connoisseurship by definition changes through the ages. In Rembrandt's time that which made him such a great genius particularly his late period when he is more impressionistic, expressionistic, abstract also made him far less popular. So he was famous but less of a currency but he was doing what he wanted to do and that changes the trajectory of painting. When you look at painting today what's required ofConnie: The ability to distinguish between a Rembrandt and a RemBrandt pupil for example because of familiarity and looking,. Looking, looking, looking, going to visit paintings which is
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