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Title: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: Irongrip400 on June 09, 2015, 09:52:15 AM
And old sculptures are not?  I am not an Art major, but maybe one of you high class getbiggers can enlighten me as to why a sculpture, say from ancient Greece, looks like an actual person, yet old ass paintings and drawings of people look like shit?  Is it the paintbrush or canvas quality?  I mean, ancient Egyptians were doing great sculptures, yet their paintings looked like crap, no detail.  WTF?
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Post by: Knooger on June 09, 2015, 09:54:42 AM
Only Falcon can clear up this mystery.
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Post by: El Diablo Blanco on June 09, 2015, 09:55:24 AM
Huh?  How old are you talking.  Rembrandt's painting's are outstanding.  As for 2000 year old paintings until early 1900's.  Well, they were just discovering how to make their own paints.  They had to grind up stone and other things found in nature, then cut horse hair to create their own brushes.  Create their own canvas.  Not like they were able to order this shit online.
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: Irongrip400 on June 09, 2015, 09:56:31 AM
Huh?  How old are you talking.  Rembrandt's painting's are outstanding.  As for 2000 year old paintings until early 1900's.  Well, they were just discovering how to make their own paints.  They had to grind up stone and other things found in nature, then cut horse hair to create their own brushes.  Create their own canvas.  Not like they were able to order this shit onling.

Pretty much what I was thinking, just needed one of you cultured mofos to answer and solidify this for me.  Thanks, be well.
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Post by: Grape Ape on June 09, 2015, 09:57:11 AM
And old sculptures are not?  I am not an Art major, but maybe one of you high class getbiggers can enlighten me as to why a sculpture, say from ancient Greece, looks like an actual person, yet old ass paintings and drawings of people look like shit?  Is it the paintbrush or canvas quality?  I mean, ancient Egyptians were doing great sculptures, yet their paintings looked like crap, no detail.  WTF?

Egyptians were too busy being chased by mummies and sandstorms to worry about shit like painting.
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Post by: Obvious Gimmick on June 09, 2015, 09:57:27 AM
The smithsonian had a great exhibit on this very thing a couple of years ago. I don't remember exactly what the findings were but it had something to do with they're failure to harness electricity and dat der heme-iron
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on June 09, 2015, 10:00:48 AM
The smithsonian had a great exhibit on this very thing a couple of years ago. I don't remember exactly what the findings were but it had something to do with they're failure to harness electricity and dat der heme-iron

True.  Electricity wasn't discovered until the 1600's but not harnessed for another hundred plus years.  Heme Iron was discovered in 2008 by the noted scholar Falcone
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Post by: thegamechanger on June 09, 2015, 10:11:10 AM
egyptians just had a thing for 2d graphics, kinda like old video games
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Post by: BB on June 09, 2015, 10:44:44 AM
Yes, a lot of it is the quality of materials. Wooden panels were the premier medium to paint on till the 1500's. The paints were relatively shitty, you were stuck with tempera, or crudely mixed oil paints which thick and funky. And then you had to deal with the weather, impure mixes, etc.... which could mottle the paint, or crack it off canvas.
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Post by: mazrim on June 09, 2015, 10:53:00 AM
Now we have people making them crappy on purpose and call it "art" and if you don't understand why that blob of multicolored paint is called "unicorn on a rainbow" you have issues.
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Post by: wikkedonez on June 09, 2015, 11:05:07 AM
Ya mean like this one... ::)
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Post by: bradistani on June 09, 2015, 11:50:24 AM
And old sculptures are not?  I am not an Art major, but maybe one of you high class getbiggers can enlighten me as to why a sculpture, say from ancient Greece, looks like an actual person, yet old ass paintings and drawings of people look like shit?  Is it the paintbrush or canvas quality?  I mean, ancient Egyptians were doing great sculptures, yet their paintings looked like crap, no detail.  WTF?

original egyptians >>>> fake egyptians
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Post by: funk51 on June 09, 2015, 12:28:55 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: Irongrip400 on June 09, 2015, 01:05:24 PM
Ya mean like this one... ::)

You're kidding me right?  Tell me you're trolling.
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Post by: Grape Ape on June 09, 2015, 01:06:30 PM
original egyptians >>>> fake egyptians

Original egyptians were hebrew
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Post by: denarii on June 09, 2015, 01:20:04 PM
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Post by: Nails on June 09, 2015, 01:22:44 PM
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Post by: njflex on June 09, 2015, 01:50:05 PM
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that women no doubt had gout amongst other maladies..
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: wikkedonez on June 09, 2015, 01:53:08 PM
Her hand looks like she's holding an Otter instead of
her tittie.
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: Nails on June 09, 2015, 01:53:19 PM
that women no doubt had gout amongst other maladies..


i saw that painting at the New York City Art Museum , it was disgusting they had a few more of that collection just like it there
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Post by: Simple Simon on June 09, 2015, 01:54:30 PM
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Roseanne Barr
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Post by: theTRASHMAN on June 09, 2015, 01:55:07 PM
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Medford lookin thick as a cock....
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: njflex on June 09, 2015, 01:55:16 PM
Roseanne Barr
haha...
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Post by: njflex on June 09, 2015, 01:56:30 PM
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that couch if it had feelings ,would be of suffocation at this point...
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Post by: Nails on June 09, 2015, 01:59:27 PM
that fat bitch broke the auction record when it sold for $33 million 

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/art-fat-woman-nude-breaks-auction-record-sells-33m-new-york-article-1.327198 (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/art-fat-woman-nude-breaks-auction-record-sells-33m-new-york-article-1.327198)


La maja gorda: 'Benefits supervisor sleeping' on display at Christie's before its sale.

A Christie's auction house spokeswoman says a painting by British artist Lucian Freud has broken a global record for living artists by fetching more than $33 million at a New York sale.

Spokeswoman Sara Fox says an anonymous buyer won Tuesday's bidding for Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping." The life-size 1995 portrait depicts a nude woman sleeping on a worn-out sofa.

At more than $33.6 million, the price easily topped the $23.6 million record for living artists. It was set in November by Jeff Koons' "Hanging Heart" sculpture.

The 85-year-old Freud is the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

Tuesday's sale also included "Studies for Self Portrait," by British artist Francis Bacon. Fox says it sold for more than $28 million.

The prices include the auction house's commission, known as the buyer's premium.
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: wikkedonez on June 09, 2015, 02:17:15 PM
A fool and his money are soon parted...
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Post by: Novena on June 09, 2015, 11:35:56 PM
And old sculptures are not?  I am not an Art major, but maybe one of you high class getbiggers can enlighten me as to why a sculpture, say from ancient Greece, looks like an actual person, yet old ass paintings and drawings of people look like shit?  Is it the paintbrush or canvas quality?  I mean, ancient Egyptians were doing great sculptures, yet their paintings looked like crap, no detail.  WTF?

The actual  answer for your question is, "Because the Renaissance hadn't happened yet."
If you can pay attention for the full 52 minutes, it lays out the full, complete line of events.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cjjme_the-day-the-universe-changed-03-10-point-of-view-scientific-imagination-in-the-renaissance_shortfilms
Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: 2Thick on June 10, 2015, 04:31:09 PM
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Title: Re: Whay are really old paintings shitty?
Post by: Yamcha on June 11, 2015, 09:28:58 AM
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Gilbert Grape's mom. Always had sexual fantasies about her.  :-X
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Post by: Teutonic Knight on June 11, 2015, 02:42:21 PM
Why is primitive Afro art so primitive  ;D ,   :-\