I mean, you take one look at Greek statues and Roman busts and you realize that people figured how to aim for realism, at least when it came to the human body and faces, over 2000 years ago.

Yet, unlike sculpture, paintings and drawings remained, uh, “immature” for centuries afterwards (to my limited knowledge, it was the Italian Renaissance that started making realistic paintings). Why?

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    something as simple as a variety of colors took hundreds of years of technological advancement

    If anyone is looking for a rabbit hole to go down, the history of pigments is a great one.