WWI also destroyed belief in beauty: the Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Romantic music, almost all my favorite beautiful things ended then. The US, being mostly untouched, carried the torch a little longer: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty in 1959 was probably the peak. But today it’s well into the shadow too, compare this image to this one.
I’m not sure what your images are supposed to demonstrate. The two movies have completely different aesthetics, yes, but the direct comparison is unfair — the first is a screencap from the movie, the second is an image specifically for publicity that afaik doesn’t appear in the movie itself, so it’s not particularly damning that it’s more austere. The image below (a screencap from the first Frozen clip reel that appeared when I searched Google) seems like a more fair comparison… although again I don’t really get what you were trying to point to.
Movie screencap with woodland background + animal friends, like your Sleeping Beauty image
I think that the main thing I’m not getting is how “almost all my favorite beautiful things ended [at WWI]” implies “WWI destroyed belief in beauty”. I don’t find Frozen to be less ‘beautiful’ than Sleeping Beauty — but it’s just so subjective! What is ‘belief in beauty’? Was Vera Lynn’s music (wildly popular in Europe during WWII) not beautiful?
To be clear I think it’s possible that you have a point — art is certainly different now than it was a few hundred years ago, and the world wars were an inflection point for all sorts of things — but I’m just not sure what that point is.
I mean, even with your image it seems to me that the earlier movie was more fond of the human form, while the later one has a more weird/grotesque view of it. You can say beauty is subjective, but that view itself feels to me like part of the decline. Gaudi thought beauty was a specific and analyzable aspect of nature (curved lines and so on), and his buildings are my favorite places in the world.
WWI also destroyed belief in beauty: the Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Romantic music, almost all my favorite beautiful things ended then. The US, being mostly untouched, carried the torch a little longer: Disney’s Sleeping Beauty in 1959 was probably the peak. But today it’s well into the shadow too, compare this image to this one.
I’m not sure what your images are supposed to demonstrate. The two movies have completely different aesthetics, yes, but the direct comparison is unfair — the first is a screencap from the movie, the second is an image specifically for publicity that afaik doesn’t appear in the movie itself, so it’s not particularly damning that it’s more austere. The image below (a screencap from the first Frozen clip reel that appeared when I searched Google) seems like a more fair comparison… although again I don’t really get what you were trying to point to.
I think that the main thing I’m not getting is how “almost all my favorite beautiful things ended [at WWI]” implies “WWI destroyed belief in beauty”. I don’t find Frozen to be less ‘beautiful’ than Sleeping Beauty — but it’s just so subjective! What is ‘belief in beauty’? Was Vera Lynn’s music (wildly popular in Europe during WWII) not beautiful?
To be clear I think it’s possible that you have a point — art is certainly different now than it was a few hundred years ago, and the world wars were an inflection point for all sorts of things — but I’m just not sure what that point is.
I mean, even with your image it seems to me that the earlier movie was more fond of the human form, while the later one has a more weird/grotesque view of it. You can say beauty is subjective, but that view itself feels to me like part of the decline. Gaudi thought beauty was a specific and analyzable aspect of nature (curved lines and so on), and his buildings are my favorite places in the world.