wildwinter

Back from Pisa and Florence.

We saw lots of Renaissance art – hence the title.

Which prompts me to ask – why is it that up until the Renaissance no-one could really draw? I mean, in lots of cultures, all over the world, all separately, no-one could get people right.

Why?

You’d have thought someone would have looked at the rock they were drawing on, looked at the person in front of them and gone “You know – he looks nothing like this at all. Why don’t I just capture the light and shade with this piece of chalk and this piece of charcoal?”

Was it all about the heresy? Were ancient cultures forbidden from capturing images in case spirits were captured? All cultures?

I’m not meaning that there wasn’t good art, in some cases exceptionally intricate art. And I’m not meaning they couldn’t draw images of people. But the real three-D capturing of light and shadow doesn’t seem to happen until Michaelangelo, Giotto, Leonardo and co. Even amongst Eastern cultures. I may be totally wrong about that, in which case I blame my art teacher…

I would have thought it could evolve just by someone, somewhere, looking at what was in front of them. Surely some kid, somewhere, who didn’t have an art teacher going “that’s right, just draw it as if he was a cardboard cut out – it works for South Park, so it’ll work for this triptych, okay?”

I don’t get it.

Looks like Brütal Legend is really shaping up:

Preview (and trailer) here.