Can we talk about the history of art and how techniques developed over time? I'm curious to know how we went from the same art style for a good few hundred years to what the op image is.
>>17660
Photography and film. Everything since from Picasso to Pollack has been just meme artists. Metropolis and 2001 are greater than any painting of the last 150 years
>>17660
Civilisation is a pretty great documentary series.
>>17772
Why did photography develop? Was it out of need, or simple curiosity?
>>17870
idk I mean why not. Doesn't seem like something expected by ancient futurists unlike machines and flying
I know shit all about visual arts but I've studied music history, and it's largely a consequent of non-artistic events. Like, medieval art (or at least the shit that survived) is largely religious, and modern art was reactionary to shit like WWI. That kinda thing. Obviously technology plays a part too, if it can be used in composition.
>>18212
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Why are massive projects like pic related never undertaken anymore?
Is it because kings would commission them purely because they wanted to see something beautiful or leave a legacy, whereas a democratic committees would see it as too expensive and risky?
>>19865
Trump Wall could be the next feat.
>>17870
Speaking as someone with little direct knowledge: probably curiosity at first. Photography sounds like it would have been a good way to put newly-developed chemistry knowledge and techniques to good use.
>>20542
Wasn't there evidence of an ancient greek pinhole camera?
