Frida Kahlo & contemporary thoughts by Daniela Falini. Signature Illustration Blog. Art & architecture. Your Daily Art. Roz Wound Up. Kunstlust. Looking Around - Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. - TIME.com. The Art Inquirer. Man of the Century. When TIME Magazine tried to wrap up the millennium in 2000 with a series of special issues, they decided to name the most significant figure of each century.
Only one artist rose to that stature—Giotto, who died January 8, 1337.[*] Writing of TIME’s Man of the 14th Century, Johanna McGeary said, “We who are jaded by the unnatural deconstructions of 20th century art cannot easily imagine the electric impact Giotto made by painting natural human figures that reached out of their frames to communicate directly with the observer. This was not simply a marvel in a superstitious age but also the artistic birth of the Renaissance. Giotto fathered a radical revolution of startling genius that set the course of Western art for the next 600 years.”
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