Classical & Anti-classical constitute the poles
between which culture oscillates.
Because most humans are
of markedly emotional nature,
the Anti-classical periods tend to prevail. 

 

  Parthenon   The Parthonon epitomizes the classical ideal:
calm, rational, harmonious.

 

  Frenzied emotionality and adundance of detail,
as evinced in the gothic cathedral at
Chartres, exemplifies anti-classicism.		   Chartres

 

  Raphael Madonna

   The Renaissance marked
the rebirth of classical ideals.
Raphael's Madonna (c.1505) is
calm, rational, harmonious.

 

  Compare the anti-classical tone of
Ivan Albright's painting (1928)
Smaller than Tears Are the Little Blue Flowers  ...		 Ivan Albright

 

 
Titian
   with the classical tenor of Titian's
Venus with Mirror (c.1555).

 

  The overwhelming anxiety and horror
in the mind of this 1890 Everyman is
mirrored in the landscape ...		 Munch

 

  Claude Lorrain compare the idyllic classical landscape
of Claude Lorrain (1645)

 

  Poussian Poussin (c 1640) depicted a scene of horror and carnage
in accordance with the rules of perspective

 

  Picasso's Guernica (1937) Picasso