Ancient artists had incredible command on dimensionality and depth, but very rare works survive. The few that do are mostly mosaics, which would definitely be of lower quality than the real deal (painted drawings on canvases). Along with all other kinds of art, it seems classical art peaked before the Athenian golden age, climaxing for the next 3 centuries, before gradually declining and finally falling off a cliff at the start of the dark ages. Christian Art looked almost like cave doodles compared to that of the antiquities, be it painting, architecture or sculpture work. The decline in the Roman period was very mellow, though, like a slowly deflating balloon, and there were some occasional masterpieces of art like the Laocoon or the famous sculpture of Augustus, most of these coming from Greek artisans, but as a whole the art in this period doesn't seem to match the great splendor of the classical Greeks, and Roman art seemed to be mostly just incremental modifications on the Corinthian Order.A similar phenomenon happened later in the Renaissance; artists like Raphael, Titian and Da Vinci usher an age of masters of art, then a steady decline happens, each generation of artists is worse then the next (or so people at the time fully believed).So I'm seeing a very interesting pattern here; Art doesn't follow most of the patterns that the rest of mankind and civilization forms. Technology has a straightforward pattern; fire > wheel > wheelbarrow > carriages > trans and automobiles, each increment is an upgrade on the previous one, but for art there are periods where it reaches its zenith, and eras where it declines and hits rock bottom.What do you think?
>>7734161Nice analysis, anon. Technology can regress, too. The Tasmanian Aboriginals discovered fire and then forgot it, for instance. Roman plumbing and engineering was not matched for a long time after the fall. Egyptian construction peaked with the Great Pyramids, and then there was nothing like it for thousands of years. I think the lesson is that humanity can just fuck up. In the case of the Greeks and Romans, both groups declined because they couldn't maintain fertility. They reached a level of affluence that was unprecedented for antiquity, and then people stopped wanting to reproduce, so the people who did enjoy fucking and making babies displaced them and gangraped their culture, unfortunately.
>>7734611>Fire, wheel, wheelbarrow, carriges Yeah I've played an rts before. What about it ?
technology also regresses, there is no way to rebuild old massive wooden or stones structures because the knowledge is not there anymore. Same thing with modern tech, companies struggle to get to the moon while it was done multiple times in the 60s and 70s with very primitive computers. When a great engineer dies it creates a tech vacuum since there is no way to pass on that experience.
>>7734951Lol we're building la sagrada familia right now. In fact we're only finishing it because of new technology, kinda like brunelleschi and the dome.
>>7735123no offense but it looks like shit
>>7735134>I do not like the aesthetics of modern constructions>Must be technology's faultbakayou've managed to enter the inverse of this
>>7735123>right now'Right now' meaning about 90 years, and all to build what seems to be a gigantic termite mound.
>>7734161>"Young man, get on that bed and bend over."
>>7734161>Technology has a straightforward pattern; fire > wheel > wheelbarrow > carriages > trans and automobiles, each increment is an upgrade on the previous onenot only, as other said, it can regress, but there are also holes in the story: we still don't really understand how Egyptian pyramids were built. we have hypothesis, that's all.or, every decade or so, we find evidence of earlier humans.one non-mainstream hypothesis for Egyptian pyramids is that they were built before "contemporary" Egyptians, by an even older civilization. it's supported in part because some openings in a pyramid are aligned with some peculiar stars, in a position they would have had much before the time of "contemporary" Egyptians. or by the sphinx weathering, which may have been caused by rain water, implying the sphinx would have been built when there still was plenty of rain in the region.parenthesis aside, our knowledge of the past is unreliable. zeniths followed by declined to rock bottom is a pretty common pattern: not a single civilization has escaped it so far, there's no reason to believe technology would be different.>>7735432> brain on modern culturesad. funny but sad.
