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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Depends specifically what pictures you refer to.
But the common “Medieval artwork” people are usually talking about are like those battlefield pictures where there’s no sense of perspective, its all laid out flat, and there’s no lighting or shading.
That was actually just a popular art style at the time. They were completely capable of Renaissance era painting, because there is examples of it. But the flat style was popular.
Its like how minimalist/modern art is popular now, but, you know, has the appearance of looking unskilled and lazy. Obviously, there’s still people who draw ultra detailed art, but that’s not what art galleries want.
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