Did any ancienct cilivizations except Hellenistic and Roman ones build realistic sculptures? What are examples? If they didn't, why?
>If they didn't, why?
Because style
>>431323
Africans (Yoruba), Chinese too I guess
>>431323
Only the Romans built realistic sculptures, Greek sculptures were always idealized images that cleared any imperfection of the person depicted. Greek artisans were actually freaked out that the Romans wanted an exact rendering.
>>431461
Keep in mind that statues should be less than realistic because of their size and viewing angle.
Most observers are at the foot of the statue and look up, so the top should be smaller than the bottom.
Better question : what was the vaporwave of ancient times?
>>431486
Neoplatonism
Terrcotta army, fagtrons. It depends on how one defines ancient, but they date back to 210 BC.
>>432632
There's a legend that each one was modeled after a real soldier, and that's why they have distinct faces
>>431323
Yoruba civilization did a ton of it.
The Egyptians made some realistic sculptures thousands of years before the Greeks. You could consider them a precursor to Greek sculptural art.
>Minoans had contact with Egypt.
>Mycenaeans arrive and absorb their culture.
>Produce Art.
Also not exactly ancient, but the medieval Buddhist wood carved statues in Japan are pretty realistic.
>>431323
>vaporwave
>>431461
>implying the Greeks didn't do realistic sculptures from time to time.
>>431333
You mean A E S T E T H I C
Moche of Peru.
>>432669
>Yoruba civilization
This old meme again.
Wasn't that just a couple of busts?
>>433917
The sculptures are the most famous artefacts, but theYoruba were, except writing, full-fledged civilisation
>>433942
>except writing, full-fledged civilisation
How do you even get large scale architecture without writing?
Seems like a lot to remember/make up on the fly.
>>434412
Repetition & Constant practice and oral tradition
>Remember: this fits there, and if you tie down this bit, it wont collapse
That sort of shit.
>>433904
is that simon hayha lmao
>>431323
I never understood the abstract/significance of this album cover....any thoughts?
>>434412
Actually in most cases that come to my mind writing was developed after the monumental architecture.
Also while they hadn't a true writing, a protowriting called Nsibidi was in use, picrelated.
>>434501
a e s t h e t i c
>>434501
It has some religious significance, with the bible I believe. I remember reading an interesting interpretation that went this route.
>>433476
>aestethic
Seriously nigger?
>>432711
>ancient betas also had mantits
>>435419
Only a few. Most are stylized. Pic related is really the only Pharaoh that wasn't into stylized.
Lots of them did,even Africans
However the level of anatomical detail of European sculpture is unmatched,stands to reason Romans ended up inventing medicine.
>>432653
>Be Chinese soldier in the Qin Army
>"Hey, Emperor wants to recreate us- I mean, almost all of us- for his statue army."
>"Ok"
>MFW indirectly immortalized for all time.
>>435629
What if God is a Chinese emperor?
>>435653
Explains adherence to written laws then.
>>435653
>>435661
Many Asian cultures believed that once their rulers ascended to the throne they were essentially conduits between the heavens and the earth. The closest thing to gods that men would ever know.
This is also the reason they took imperial names upon ascension. They were no longer their mortal past selves, but something higher.
>>435687
Its probably an offshoot off Chinese Ancestor Worship.
Same thing happens to the ancestors of people within a personal level.
>>433473
Plenty of medieval art is as realistic as that.
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>>433904
That's a really beautiful piece imo
>>431323
Asians and Indians certainly did. Hinduism and Asian Buddhism are known for producing very realistic sculptures, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and the like. Muscles, veins and all. Japanese Buddhists very realistically made Nio Kongorikishi, guardian deities often seen outside of temples. There are also quite realistic statues of the Monkey King Hanuman as well. I think many people tend to forget that not just greek and romans were realistic with their statuary.
>>431461
>Greek sculptures were always idealized images that cleared any imperfection of the person depicted.
B-but anon h-how are you gonna make it and get as s-swole as Hercules or Doryphoros, Y-you w-wont make any g-gains with that attitude. G-gotta eat big to get big. C-come on, B-baka.
>>431461
>Greek sculptures were always idealized images that cleared any imperfection of the person depicted.
B-but anon h-how are you gonna make it and get as s-swole as Hercules or Doryphoros. Y-you w-wont be making any g-gains with that attitude. G-gotta eat big to get b-big. C-come on, baka
>>432711
Yeah but the Egyptians didn't know shit about contrapposto.
It's the most important development in all art.
>>431461
>Greek sculptures were always idealized images that cleared any imperfection of the person depicted.
Stop projecting your insecurities everywhere Jesus Christ
>>438127
Yeah except it took them a few millennia to finally get around to it.
A wood carved statue of the Japanese monk ChÅgen 1206.
>>438295
>getting real tired of your shit daimyo
>>432711
neither the minoans nor the myceneans produced human sized realistic sculptures
>>434875
I can see Chinese radicals in those scribbles.
>>439465
One has to question why the romans went form creating realistic sculptures to making ancient anime art.
>>438111
WHAMMU
>>431323
>Greeks
>realistic
They always used the same stupid face and bodies
