Pictures 2 and 3: are we sure that’s to depict waves? To me it looks like the (stylised, artistic depiction of) backsplash when rain hits a water surface.
Pictures 1 and 4: yeah, that’s kinda how waves look like pictured in a medievalist art style. You gotta remember that naturalism (i.e. the realistic approach to picture things) is not beginning before the renaissance. But besides the regularities in shape and orientation, this looks pretty well like windswept waves.
Yeah sometimes we forget that art movements/styles existed intentionally well before the 19th century lol.
Short form symbolism is part of media, and while some of that understood context may be lost to time it doesn’t erase it entirely. They were just as nuanced, goofy and human as we are.
Yeah sometimes we forget that art movements/styles existed intentionally well before the 19th century lol.
Yes, but Europe after the 6th century AD and before the 14th century AD suffered from a pretty severe lack of artistic transmission of techniques. Even Byzantines were praising wooden-as-fuck depictions of saints as ‘lifelike’.
Poverty and barriers to travel and communication are deeply damaging to artistic movements.
Pictures 2 and 3: are we sure that’s to depict waves? To me it looks like the (stylised, artistic depiction of) backsplash when rain hits a water surface.
Pictures 1 and 4: yeah, that’s kinda how waves look like pictured in a medievalist art style. You gotta remember that naturalism (i.e. the realistic approach to picture things) is not beginning before the renaissance. But besides the regularities in shape and orientation, this looks pretty well like windswept waves.
Yeah sometimes we forget that art movements/styles existed intentionally well before the 19th century lol.
Short form symbolism is part of media, and while some of that understood context may be lost to time it doesn’t erase it entirely. They were just as nuanced, goofy and human as we are.
Yes, but Europe after the 6th century AD and before the 14th century AD suffered from a pretty severe lack of artistic transmission of techniques. Even Byzantines were praising wooden-as-fuck depictions of saints as ‘lifelike’.
Poverty and barriers to travel and communication are deeply damaging to artistic movements.