What creates a great artist like Gentileschi, Van Gogh or Manet? Talent or training?

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Talk about Plato’s (Socrates) allegory of the cave! Holy mackerel these are unbelievable!

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Hey even if you think you’re not interested, you’ll like this. I have a degree in art history and I thought I wasn’t interested, but it’s pretty good, even though this episode is about the most over-covered painting in the history of the world. It was fun and well done . . . so there ya go . . .

Art History in About a Minute

“The pause during which the entire world halts in its orbit. Your face embodies all the beauty of the world. Your lips, as crimson as a ripe fruit, are half open as if to express pain. A corpse’s smile. Here life and death shake hands. The chain that links thousands of past generations to the thousands to come has been meshed.”

- Edvard Munch

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