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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Everyone here is overlooking the simple fact that we now have photography.
Realism artists don’t have photographic memories, their cameras do. They can take a photo of a model and then work on their art for as long as it takes in their studio.
It’s not a natural talent either, it takes a lot of time, practice, hard work and good tools. None of which ancient people could invest in.
Grog the caveman wouldn’t be able to convince Frugg to pose without moving for 3 months while he painstakingly painted their likeness onto the cave wall with a stick and some tree sap. Frugg needs to go hunting.
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