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Painting never aimed to be photorealistic. Paintings always present a fictional unrealistic visual that tricks the mind into perceiving it as "real". That is t
by otabdeveloper4 3y ago
Painting never aimed to be photorealistic. Paintings always present a fictional unrealistic visual that tricks the mind into perceiving it as "real".
That is the true measure of an artist's skill - to make the unreal seem real.
- jenadine 3y agoSome painting were aimed to be photorealistic though (but not all painting were)
- RecycledEle 3y ago> Painting never aimed to be photorealistic Untrue. You might be looking back at this as someone who lived in a era when photography was for documentaries and painting was for art. Are you autistic? I do not mean to be offensive. I'm an aspie.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoPainting was always first and foremost for spiritual and religious purposes, not for documenting things. Secular painting became a thing only very recently, two or three hundred years ago. And even then, it was always used to whitewash or vilify something or someone. Bias was (and is!) its primary purpose.
- RecycledEle 3y ago> Painting was always first and foremost for spiritual and religious purposes, not for documenting things. There was a time (most of human history) when painting was the most realistic way we had of conveying images.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoTechnically true, but irrelevant - practically nobody used painting for that purpose throughout history. (People didn't care about "realism" at all, that is a recent 20th century fixation.)