What If Michelangelo Had Instagram?
My day began with a message from a friend pondering the following —
Imagine all of the great artists and thinkers and poets and creators of the past — Kandinsky, Monet, Manet, and DaVinci come to mind along with all of the people who have contributed to the beauty of the world and our understanding of it through that. Imagine if they were around during these times where everything is labeled as a psychiatric issue. That could be such a different turn out.
Imagine if this type of dynamic existed back then, where people are so quick to label themselves and be victims instead of just expressing whatever is inside that makes them different. They decided to express it through art. That was their contribution. Now imagine all of these creative people today who are so eager to be autistic…
In listening to her premise, I fully anticipated that her question was leading to a scenario where all of those artists were living in an age of ‘content’ and Kandinsky was painting works for them to be shown in a grid on Instagram or Michelangelo was concerned about capturing photos and videos of his behind the scenes process for TikTok as he painted the Sistine Chapel.
image credit: Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1534–41). Sistine Chapel, altar wall, Vatican City, Rome. (photo by Francisco Anzola)
