Art and the Homeless

Moments in art can be dated with reasonable accuracy—an artist's birth, death, completion of a painting, its date of sale—and placed in chronological sequence. Individual perception comes into play when more than one artist is perceived to have features of style in common with other artists of the same chronology. The painting of the High Renaissance was the first perceived “movement” in art, and the one which was first to be observed to transition into subsequent movements. By this movement the art of The Baroque eventually emerged from the Renaissance as a distinct style, but gradually—not overnight—as if by torchlight, cautiously going by feeling its way in the dark. It was likewise the time of an emerging historical sense, of being-in-history, of making history. The entire era of the Baroque in art has been characterized as “the age of power,” both in art, as in the wider, world of events. In that interval of uncertainty between the soaring achievements of Renaissance art, and ...

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A gloss of popular discussions on the difference between Chiaroscuro and tenebrism in art reveals a broad non-consensus. Let's begin with a taxonomy of the terms, an ordering by genus and species. Chiaroscuro is genus. Tenebrism is species. That admits assertions such as, “every example of tenebrism in painting must also be an example of Chiaroscuro in painting.” And the complementary analogy, “not every example of Chiaroscuro in painting must, of necessity, also be an example of tenebrism.”  Implicit in any designation of a painting as “tenebrist” is the (unstated) premise that it is but one property of Chiaroscuro. Before defining what tenebrism is, it may be worthwhile to give an example of what it is not. For brevity, I won't give examples of specific works of art in particular. Instead, think of the primary meaning of Chiaroscuro as not—in itself—artistic. Before nuanced art—when art was little more than charcoal smudges and rust stains—sentient humans gazed in awe at the...

"Term of art" is a legal term. It is so-named to set it apart from other legal terminology which, in a different context, may have a non-legal meaning. Anything said under oath in a court of law is presumably legal language. An argument may turn on a Latin word, or phrase, which is only familiar to legal professionals. What about the rest of us? “Term of art” examples abound, too many from which to choose. Any “term of art” legal term in a news story—the one you have to search to get the point of the story—is a useful instance. A more interesting approach (for our purposes) is an inverse analogy. What, if anything, might be a “term of art” in a context other than law? -in the field of art, for instance.  By this definition a “term of art” in the field of art would be a highly contextual term possibly meaningless, or with a very different meaning, outside the field of Art. Perspective is a good example of a dual-use, both figurative and specific, "term of art." Disco...