Unit 5: Neoclassicism.

I have come to believe that when humans do not know what else to do to express themselves, they just recycle whatever was used years and even centuries before. That is how I think that Neoclassicism rose from one second to the other. I find quite easy to believe that the Rococo era was a blast for all forms of art. What I do not find easy to digest is why people would choose to go back and take ancient Greek tendencies. It might be that I am saying this because the Rococo and Renaissance eras are the ones I like most. Rococo art was just a beautiful and almost magical representation of what the eighteen century was like. Rococo portraits would show their characters as immensely beautiful people in dreamlike places. Women would look like real life porcelain dolls and men as handsome as possible. On the other hand, neoclassicism brought back the coliseum like landscapes and disappeared the pastoral backgrounds. Everything was beautiful but simpler. So, I am not saying that Neoclassicism brought negative things to that era but, it was something not as progressive and evolutionary as I would have liked it to be.