Couldn’t they tell that objects farther away appear smaller?
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It begs a couple of questions. The idea that we should represent reality on a 2d object is not intuitive. Why do humans find it interesting to reproduce the things that we see. Similar to music. Why do we find the sound of vibrations in different tones interesting? It’s rather arbitrary.
There is nothing intuitive about this concept. So I think it’s more of a cultural fashion than something inherently useful or practical.
Similar to how ancient maps focused more on visual cues rather than accurate measurements as this wasn’t necessary or helpful.
Something that probably arose in the renaissance due to the ideas about science and understanding the world and nature.
Secondly but related is that human 2d representations often have different purposes than to mirror reality. After all why would we want to make a copy of something we’re looking at? Art even in contemporary art is more about creation of visually compelling images and meaningful concepts.
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