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Originally Posted by Glice
You don't need to restrict that sort of statement to 'modern' (that term seem oxymoronic today) painters either - the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta, Van Gogh, the aforementioned Carvaggio [etc] - all fail on the computer screen.
For years I thought I disliked Warhol until I saw his stuff in situ in a gallery. I still have massive qualms about him, but it makes legions more sense in its 'proper context' than it does reproduced in a book or on a screen.
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Yeah, although I sometimes think with say Rothko that it's the physical size of his paintings that suggests their greatness far more than the paintings themselves. Not that scale can be seperated from the overall message of any painting. You get my drift though, I'm sure.