Whay are really old paintings shitty?

[Irongrip400]

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?

[Knooger]

Only Falcon can clear up this mystery.

[El Diablo Blanco]

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.

[Irongrip400]

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.

[Grape Ape]

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.

[Obvious Gimmick]

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

[El Diablo Blanco]

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

[thegamechanger]

egyptians just had a thing for 2d graphics, kinda like old video games

[BB]

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.

[mazrim]

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.

[wikkedonez]

Ya mean like this one...

[bradistani]

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

[funk51]

 

[Irongrip400]

Ya mean like this one...

You're kidding me right?  Tell me you're trolling.

[Grape Ape]

original egyptians >>>> fake egyptians

Original egyptians were hebrew

[denarii]

[Nails]

[njflex]

that women no doubt had gout amongst other maladies..

[wikkedonez]

Her hand looks like she's holding an Otter instead of
her tittie.

[Nails]

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

[Simple Simon]

Roseanne Barr

[theTRASHMAN]

Medford lookin thick as a cock....

[njflex]

Roseanne Barr

haha...

[njflex]

that couch if it had feelings ,would be of suffocation at this point...

[Nails]

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


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.