I’m asking because paintings, whether on the wall of a cave, or on generally of a King or Queen in ancient times look quite weird. Not necessarily in a bad way, it has its own cool art style, but they are not realistic or anywhere close.
If human beings have a natural talent, photographic memory or incredible artistic ability today where they can make TikToks of painting ultra realistic art with fire, chalk or charcoal etc Why do we almost never see realism in painting/artistic history? I’m talking paintings specifically not sculptures btw
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There are quite realistic paintings on cave walls–definitely moreso than silly medieval illustrated manuscript art (which was done by bored scribes). The cave paintings aren’t as realistic as today in part because of art technology.
They weren’t painting with a wide variety of tools and paint consistencies. The most versatile media they’d have had access to would be something like chalk or ash, which doesn’t last very long.
Ancient *sculpture* is often photorealistic, so there’s no reason to believe they couldn’t produce 2D work equally realistic.
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