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...What do Michelangelo's rendering of David, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a rape survivor's support group and the lyrics of Alanis Morrissette all have in common...
Meek says she has heard good reports about two other core classes--Literature and Arts B-39: "Michelangelo" and Literature and Arts A-18: "Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood...
This injunction is peculiar and hard to disobey, given the gradual development in Western art of the maker overwhelming the made. Michelangelo became "Michelangelo" because his contemporaries, and then posterity, recognized the genius displayed across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and in such of his statues as David and Pieta. A similar process transformed Shakespeare into "Shakespeare." In both cases, magnificent achievements led to posthumous idolatry...
...major beneficiary of this trend was Rembrandt, whom Romantic writers in the early 1800s seized upon as an exemplar of the artist as Prometheus. As the demand for Rembrandts grew, so, mysteriously, did the supply. It is therefore worthwhile to note that several weeks before the Michelangelo and Shakespeare attributions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, just two blocks north of the house in which the little Cupid stands, came to the end of its "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt" exhibit. This show reflected the labors of the Rembrandt Research Project, an Amsterdam-based group of experts on Dutch painting...
...supposed to be by Rembrandt loses face when its connection with the master is disputed or disproved, even though it looks just the same as it did when we admired it before. Nor can we understand the sudden compulsion to look anew at and find merit in the alleged Michelangelo Cupid and the reputed Shakespeare elegy. For all we supposedly know about it, art remains a mystery to us, forever beckoning, forever withholding its inner secrets. The best we can do is to keep our eyes open, aware that that neglected statue or that neglected poem could, if seen...