Baroque Art

            I think our society is definitely more baroque. In class we talked about what baroque was and came up with a list. Some thing  on that list were “because I can”, a contrast between light and dark, “out of the ordinary”, and such. Our society is based off of that. Everywhere we look people are rebelling and doing things “because they can”. If you compared it to someone hair, the renaissance person would have a clean cut “normal” look. The baroque person would have blonde, black, and red hair, with a different style than anyone has ever seen before. We see this throughout our society.

  Our society revolves around people being themselves and allowing themselves to be who they want to be. That is what our country is focused on. I think this relates to Baroque Art because at the time they were rebelling against the “norm”.  If you look icons in the media, they do anything they can to be out of the ordinary and abnormal. Miley Cyrus just recently had an evolution and at the Baroque time the artists were being criticized by other artists and spectators. This is happening to Miley Cyrus as well. This is just an example of the comparisons of time periods with being or becoming Baroque. In music we see this as well. Artists are coming out with songs that are not normal. 

We can even relate Baroque Art to Science in our days. Scientists are constantly coming out with new medicines and new procedures. Cancer Research, Genetic changes, and much more can be considered rebellion and "out of the ordinary.