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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
If you're a Midieval artist (or a Rennaissance artist for that matter), how are you going to depict an Arab when you've never seen one?
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Read a book maybe? Travel? There were Arabs in Europe even before 0 B.C., one could easily seek them out. The idea is that when you depict a historical character, you make SOME effort to make them look at least something like the original. Not doing so is massively lazy, and also ignorant as they assume the people who view their art are discerning enough to figure out that they are just painting some dude and calling him Jesus.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I think you're being incredibly short-sited here since you're calling some of the greatest artists in history "idiots". That list includes Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael and Giotto, just to mention the Italian ones. That's the arguement that I see you making, and it's absolute crap. Hence my initial confusion as to why someone of your intellect would even being to try to make it. Stop and think about what you're saying.
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I'm saying they were idiots. I've stopped, thought, and agreed with myself. Had they been trying to make a political statement painting or depicting Jesus as a white man, I'd call them each and all brilliant and way ahead of their time. The simple fact of the matter is that was not the case.
Also, just because someone can paint does not make them smart. It makes them talented or skillful, but not smart. Da Vinci would be the obvious exception, BUT eve though he was a brilliant inventor and free thinker, he can't figure out that Jesus wasn't white? It's ignorance and lazyness.