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The move toward a flatter perspective was deliberate and religiously motivated, in order to remove art from the potential for idolatry. It's why illuminated man
by michaelscott 7y ago
The move toward a flatter perspective was deliberate and religiously motivated, in order to remove art from the potential for idolatry. It's why illuminated manuscript is such a big deal artistically and why there are so few sculptural works from the period as well.
There are parallels in Islamic art as well, where the artistic focus is on calligraphy and architecture as opposed to the more regular forms seen in the West before and after the medieval period.
- goto11 7y agoHow did a flatter perspective remove the potential for idolatry? You are still depicting religious figures.
- michaelscott 7y agoThe idea was basically more perspective == more realistic and therefore closer to a temptation to worship (not all figures depicted in the period were necessarily religious). It's not a particularly compelling argument but there's a lot from the thinking in that period that wasn't very logical.
- tabtab 7y agoMaybe Heaven is 2D. Practice on a flat harp (not flat notes).