Dear Log,
«Comic-strip artists have known this for years. As comic-book theorist Scott McCloud points out, we identify more deeply with simply drawn cartoon characters, like those in Peanuts, than with more realistic ones. Charlie Brown doesn't trigger our obsession with the missing details the way a not-quite-photorealistic character does, so we project ourselves onto him more easily. That's part of the genius behind modernist artists such as Picasso or Matisse. They realized that the best way to capture the essence of a person or object was with a single, broad-stroked detail.»--"The Undead Zone": Why realistic graphics make humans look creepy.
Oh yes. So let's dump thirty outdated centuries of painting and sculpture to the trash can then.
Re:Progress in arts makes me laugh
TorgoX on 2004-06-11T22:34:07
The past 3,000 years of painting and sculpture have been entirely about photorealism?!? What the fuck?
