(Greek & Roman) "Statues are just statues."
It completely brings those statues back down to earth, so to speak. It sort of immerses you into a different time that isn't so different in a way, right? I can't figure out what adjectives I want to use, but thinking about these statues being painted, it brings in more cultural diversity than the way that we have described Greek and Roman culture and the different people that are moving through those spaces, right?
Shawna Barnes
@ShawnaBarnes · 0:44
Christina. Christina. Wow. I think you're referring to an article. I would love to know more about that, but wow, that's just mind blown, right? For me, as a person of color, it explains a few things, and I don't know that you would agree, but explains a few things about even Jesus being consistently represented, depicted as a very fair skinned person. If they had statues, of course it might have been painted
I've often found it interesting, like why that happened, how that happened in the numerous ways that it did, from the perspective of manipulating people or the desires of the person who did it themselves, right. What impetus, what reason would they do it for? And then how it caught on and how it coerced perspectives and manipulated masses of people is just wild. Anyway, I have this other link I've put in this description to a different article by an art
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
If they tried to restore the Mona Lisa, for example, the painting has weathered the Mona Lisa we see today, painted by Leonardo DA Vinci. It is said that DA Vinci went around looking for this very, very specific red, referred to as Carmine. Now, and he took that. I don't find carmine as an excuse to take the longest time, one of the excuses to paint the Mona Lisa
You know what I kept thinking about? That the naked statues, like, how much detail did they go into? I always have thought it funny when you look at the sculptures of the eyeballs and there's like a hole where the iris would be a pupil, rather. And then I saw some of the renderings where they colored them, and they look so fake with the eyes
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:53
But then if you look at it from a British invader point of view, where they are in foreign land surrounded by people who absolutely don't want them there, an open floor plan becomes a nightmare, right? Because someone can get in your house and completely murder your family with ease, because if they enter inside, they can go everywhere. So that is it the context. From one context, it's like they destroyed culture, but then on the other, they did it to protect themselves
I guess pinker I said pilcher for some reason and when you talked about the counterargument then it sounded familiar. I forgot what that had been and that's exactly what I had read. And, you know, we're talking about context. It would be interesting if we could have many people from around the planet it with a background in art and history and so on, to come up with their own versions of what the statues may have looked like based on the information that's available