Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAlso the time needed to perfect that skill wouldn’t have been available that far back. If you’re needing to spend the bulk of your time hunting/gathering food and other forms of basic survival I don’t think you’d have the hours every evening to work on your shading techniques.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Excellent point, as others have astutely pointed out, a love of the arts is often cultural, and most artists need essentially a set of people who love their art and buy it or they will be a “starving artist.” So you also need a society that appreciates art enough to let certain people have all that time.