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Um, figurative painting is all the rage in the actual art world today. Art was never primarily about realistic mimicking of nature, even if some subset of it i

• dtagames 4y ago
  Are we sure about that? The cave paintings at Lascaux are of recognizable animals. Egyptian and Maya art are naturalistic too, and highly refined toward realistic portrayals. For most of Western art's history, content and style were both dictated by the patron. Even the ideas we hold around art and freedom of artistic license had to wait until the 1800s and the Salon de Refusé to come into existence. Most buyers and makers of art today still gravitate toward figurative drawing and naturalistic landscapes. It seems like we have always used art primarily to reflect and comment on the real world.