What Does Our Art Say About Us?

An Honest Analysis of the Mirror Held Up by Modern Media

It should come as no surprise for me to say that art is and has always been reflective of the social values and desires of the day.

18th century Enlightenment values saw the mechanistic and mathematical aspects of the natural order expressed in art through the intricate, geometric and aggrandizing Late Baroque and Neoclassical schools. Early 19th century romanticism, reeling from the horrors unleashed on Europe by what were deemed hyper-rationalist…