– How are people able to paint super realistic paintings today that are much more realistic and better than paintings from the Renaissance period?
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Paintings in the Renaissance period weren’t hobbies. They were commissioned by rich/powerful patrons for specific reasons, none of which may have required/wanted photorealism. “Commemorate my victory over the enemy” doesn’t, and probably can’t unless the artist was present at the battle, be done photorealistically; they’re conveying the triumph of the patron, not teaching history.
Just look at political cartoons and anima today. We have all the technology to make photorealistic art, but people still love to make and consume non-photorealistic content.
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