Oscar Wilde once said “life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Woody Allen said “life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” I’m not really sure who to believe anymore, and maybe it doesn’t even matter – all I know is that a lot of stuff coming up in my Intro Art History class looks strangely similar to images in my daily readings (i.e. OK!, People and US Weekly).
Rather than attributing this likeness to concepts my professors keep telling me about (the homogenization of all images in our society of the spectacle, the evil of the purely symbolic post-industrial society, etc.), I'm just sticking to the tried and true cliché: history repeats itself. Check out images of Rihanna, Die Antwoord, Jan van Eyck and the like after the jump to see what I’m talking about.
