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Originally Posted by starrynight
I guess you are talking about the romantic hero worship of the individual artist, something that carries on to this day in a way. But why that has to be God working through an artist I don't know, particularly as there had already been philosophers and others questioning the existence of God anyway. And I suspect some earlier artists did think their skills had been given to them by God as they saw it. Romanticism is more about LOVE than God, and secular love at that. It's this that gets lifted up to some high ideal. And it got also mixed up with nationalism (due to the politics of the time)
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No, thats not what romanticism was about at all. There are frequent tales of romantic period artists stuffing themselves to the gills with drugs in order to REMOVE their own influence from the work and allow god to guide them. THAT is what romanticism was about when it claimed to be god working through the artist.
This is getting tiring. Please, before you argue about romanticism, modernism, the intentions of an artist, or the nature of a work, I would implore you to educate yourself on the matters via a source more reputable and reliable source than assumption and hearsay. I am not stating what I am stating blind, I have been told this by university lecturers, read it in academic journals and researched it in books written by luminaries and professionals. I have spent a not inconsiderable portion of my life making sure I know what I'm talking about regarding these very topics, in and out of education proper. For all you claim that doesn't matter, my experience suggests that the opposite is in fact true.