Yeah, I saw that rebuttal and it seemed pretty strange to me.
They couldn’t have been sculpting from their own perspective, because they technically had access to viewing themselves from a third-person perspective?
We technically had access to drawing with linear perspective all along, but somehow until only a few hundred years ago, this is the best we could do:
It just seems like a very modern-biased way of thinking about depiction. Mapping objective reality (rather than subjective perception) into art is a relatively new concept.
Yeah, I saw that rebuttal and it seemed pretty strange to me.
They couldn’t have been sculpting from their own perspective, because they technically had access to viewing themselves from a third-person perspective?
We technically had access to drawing with linear perspective all along, but somehow until only a few hundred years ago, this is the best we could do:
It just seems like a very modern-biased way of thinking about depiction. Mapping objective reality (rather than subjective perception) into art is a relatively new concept.