>Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines, which was very important because we didn’t have any other kind of rendering engine and looking at a

>Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines, which was very important because we didn’t have any other kind of rendering engine and looking at artificial images can be pleasing. If this were true then the Impressionism movement would never have come after the Renaissance. But it's not, there's more to visual art than just reproducing what we see with our eyes.