>Who cares how Michelangelo held his brush I can't swear to chisels but brushwork is extremely important to paintings; you really haven't seen a painting until

>Who cares how Michelangelo held his brush I can't swear to chisels but brushwork is extremely important to paintings; you really haven't seen a painting until you've gotten up close and been able to see the texture made by the strokes, and while maybe in theory you can achieve everything with a ham-fisted caveman grip on a brush it seems unlikely. Which is to say, actually many people care about how artists hold their brushes. This has been another entry in the billion part series: Why Analogies Are The Weakest Arguments.