Artist Robert Florczak: Classical Ideals Give Culture Depth

Artist Robert Florczak: Classical Ideals Give Culture Depth
“Distant Thoughts,” by Robert Florczak, 2004, oil. Courtesy of Robert Florczak
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For artist Robert Florczak, the ideals of classical art are what is worth preserving. Unless we build on the standards and ideals of past masters, new work will necessarily be shallow, unable to contribute in any depth to our culture.

It is the foundational ideals—ideals like beauty and depth—responsible for the great works that we most need, he wrote in a recent email exchange.

Sharon Kilarski
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Sharon writes theater reviews, opinion pieces on our culture, and the classics series. Classics: Looking Forward Looking Backward: Practitioners involved with the classical arts respond to why they think the texts, forms, and methods of the classics are worth keeping and why they continue to look to the past for that which inspires and speaks to us. To see the full series, see ept.ms/LookingAtClassics.
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