if you could be reborn in any era of art, which would it be?

Question

i personally would choose the romanticist era or the baroque period. the works in these times are just magnificent, not to mention the masters of art that made their fame during this time. my personal favorites of the romanticist period are delacroix, geracault and constable... each making masterpieces in their own subject

Answer 1

I would be in my glory if I had lived during the Italian Renaissance in the city of Florence.
To have studied under Michelangelo,Leonardo da Vinci,
Filippo Brunelleschi, Dante and Botticelli would be a dream come true.
Who needs to eat or sleep when you have the greatest Artists, the most brilliant minds, of that time avaiable to you.

Ahhhhh to dream, you have made me smile.
One major problem is that I am not a little boy, nor male for that matter and would never have been permitted their company nor their teachings.
So If I were to be reborn, I would also have to change my gender.
Cheers!

Answer 2

I would most enjoy being a post-impressionist, more specifically one that hung around with that arrogant S.O.B., Paul Gaugin. It was a time when, what we now hold to be some of the most prolific works of art in history (impressionism) couldn't sell. Artists really had to starve in order to submit fully for their work. (Unless, of course, you were Degas, one of the only impressionists that seemed to be able to sell work.)

Sure, the living conditions weren't exactly ideal for artists. (My being a woman would certainly not help very much!!) But helping to alter the way art was produced forever would have been worth it.

It would have been exciting to work on the cusp of new ideas, to hang out with the group of friends that created an international movement. It was the beginning of true expression. It was the development of ideas and the integration of those ideas into visual concepts. It was the production of images the likes of which dealers, patrons and curators had never seen before.

I would have loved it.

Answer 3

I love the era of Picasso and Modigliani up to the point of Pollack. I think that was a romantic era with so much new stuff happening in art. The experimentation and new things in art , it was unprecedented in our history.

Answer 4

1880 to 1920, that is when a good artist made very good money...read the book N.C. Wyeth by David Michaelis

Answer 5

I am not era savvy, but I would love to be in the times when women were real women, and proper....I love the times from the movie Titanic, with the corsets and every woman being proper. It looked like a beautiful time.