• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      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.