Vienna

[jeregenest]

I've been reading a lot about Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gustav Klimt, Oscar Kokoschka and Arnold Schoenberg among others. Playwrights, painters, musicians. Interesting all. While I knew the last three, the first two are fairly new to me, though I'm familiar with von Hofmannsthal's work with Strauss.

The artisitic classes tendancies towards a policy of escapism and deep attraction to the occult in fin de siecle Vienna is just what I need. With their notions that ideas objective meanings were misconceived and that the "modern" person must leave the moral systems of the past and create new meaning systems for the future. I have to ask myself why the artists of today are so darn boring!


I also really like Oscar Kokoschka's The Tempest

Comments

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that is pretty.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Its actually serving to be an entire basis for a subplot I have in mind for Amon.

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

Definitely check out the Belgian Symbolists (http://www.artmagick.com/galleries/belgianpoetry/), too. That site has a lot of great information and links to resources.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

I have to ask myself why the artists of today are so darn boring!

My initial offering is that perhaps the controversies of the NEA 4 and the other performance artists that were pretty thick on the ground in the early 90s has burned that impulse out for a while.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I feel like it began earlier than that though, maybe pre-WWII.