The Middle Ages: classic or dud?

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It would seem an easy answer: the Western world forgot how to make concrete, after all.

But for all the death and boredom and stuff, that time period still has a pretty cool atmosphere. Looking at medieval art, there's this super-creepy, like, timelessness: like time doesn't exist, a time vacuum. The pictures are really self-contained. I'm not saying I like the art, just that it has a really phat groove. It was the semi-revivalist painting of Burne-Jones that got me to appreciating the middle-age ambiance.

I'm not saying Burne-Jones is the shit, either: just that all in all, the Middle Ages might just be classic.

Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Saturday, 14 September 2002 04:05 (twenty-three years ago)

not too many romans had yet made it north-ah.

Mark E. Smith (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 14 September 2002 04:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The medieval period was a strange time in art. It was like everyone forgot how to draw for several centuries and then Giotto suddenly remembered.

I love the colors in the tapestries and manuscripts and how all the mammals have sad human eyes like Circe victims.

Gothic cathedral architecture, including the windows, is sublime.

felicity (felicity), Saturday, 14 September 2002 07:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The Plague = Dud

gazza, Saturday, 14 September 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Exit this Roman Shell! leave the Capitol!

mark e smith (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 14 September 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

they sure did, forget to draw.

Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Saturday, 14 September 2002 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you R all being Loonies! any event which R happening before about 400ad and after about 1500 R having little or no relevance.

Middle Ages R being best time period eva! Pope Innocent III 0\/\/|\|z j00.

Fatnick, Sunday, 15 September 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)


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