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> As an artist, I can tell you that "realism" is something that we can all agree on, but that art isn't really about portraying something (or someone) realistic
by fao_ 5y ago
> As an artist, I can tell you that "realism" is something that we can all agree on, but that art isn't really about portraying something (or someone) realistically. In the old days, it was the only way to preserve our likeness, but these days, a camera will do a much better job than even many of the most skilled artists, if you look for realism.
As an artist, you should know that a camera does not represent reality, it flattens and distorts it in such subtle ways that often art of the thing is a better likeness than the actual thing. It's one of the most basic steps in any art class -- to draw reality, not what the camera gives you, and is the reason why Botanical Artwork is still highly favoured over images (along with other reasons, like being able to represent the most important parts of the plant accurately in a general sense as opposed to a specific specimen).
Hyper-realism, in my experience, also tends to be based off of images and still has that "unreal" skewed/distorted perspective thing going on.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoThat’s a fair point, but the implied slap (“As an artist, you should know”), wasn’t particularly called for. We don’t do that kind of thing, hereabouts. In fact, the HN Ts&Cs advise against that behavior, quite explicitly.
- fao_ 5y agoMost of the people I've seen on here tend to downvote based on opinion not quality (against the T&C's / guidelines), and the 'implied verbal slap' (I disagree that it is that, but what the hell, I'll humour you) barely qualifies, after I've seen anti-vaccine, holocaust denying, brutal and weird tin-foil hat disagreements rise to the top. If you pay attention to the content that is posted on this site that gets upvoted, you'll realise the guidelines below are very literally guidelines, and that the "small verbal quip" was done for a small amount of emphasis and as a turn of phrase, not specifically to smite you or meant as anything of the derogatory sort. So I'm sorry that you took offence from it, but it seems like one of the least important things one could take offence at on this website