Why were the ancient Greeks so tacky? The colors on this statues outfit look like shit, look way better as marble
Why were the ancient Greeks so tacky? The colors on this statues outfit look like shit, look way better as marble
Why were the ancient Greeks so tacky? The colors on this statues outfit look like shit, look way better as marble
Because that reconstruction shit was painted by historians, not professional artists.
But I'm not saying the paintstyle, i'm saying the colors. Looks like some new age wine mom wearing weird gown tier. Also, the colors are painted on by seeing the traces of original color pigmentation, so they actually looked like this.
>Also, the colors are painted on by seeing the traces of original color pigmentation, so they actually looked like this.
Yeah, but your only getting the base layer of the paint.
So they made up all those other wacky colors?
No. I googled around for an example and found this on reddit. When painting figures people do so in layers, the base coat is the second layer and is basically a foundation for details. It means you don't need to keep switching back and fourth to get the right colour if you can do it in stages and helps with painting details as the colour variance makes colouring "in the lines" easier.
>that reconstruction shit was painted by historians, not professional artists.
They just discovered that the statues were painted a few years ago. And yes, they determined the exact pigments used. They're accurate.
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>almost everything is gray and brown
In Greece? They didn't have lush green vegetation, deep blue seas and bright sunny skies? Lol
>"paint everything really gaudy, bright colors
Not everything was painted, only the rich people's walls and decorations.
Why the FRICK did Homer call the ocean the 'wine dark sea' during the day when the Aegean is clearly a lively blue color? Why did they not have a word for blue? Why was Hercules called blonde haired but black bottomed (assed)? Why was olive oil called yellow? Why were they so fricking moronic? How the FRICK is Odysseus hair blonde but beard blue?
The sea can take a very dark color sometimes, depends when you look at it. Hercules had a very tanned ass from going around naked a lot but was still blonde, see orange people in sweden. Homemade olive oil has a yellow color, the stuff you buy in your supermarket is refined donkey grease. Blue is a synonym of blonde in my language, I suppose it's the same in greek
>blue is now a synonym of blonde
>tanned people are 'orange', but are clearly described as dark/black in the text
>the sea is wine dark (even the Aegean) similar to wine during even during the day
I suppose you're going to bullshit and say homemade wine is blue or something. Why can't you just say that Greek colors are complex instead of being an insufferable know it all who doesn't know shit?
Perception of color changed over time as access to the colors expanded.
>In Greece? They didn't have lush green vegetation, deep blue seas and bright sunny skies? Lol
"Everything" meaning the man-made structures obviously
>And yes, they determined the exact pigments used. They're accurate.
Doesn't that only tell you about the bottom layer?
>ancient world
>almost everything is gray and brown
>"how can we display our wealth and glory?"
>"paint everything really gaudy, bright colors"
It's really obvious if you just think about it for a second.
>look like shit
to your modern eyes
I like the old Indian statues because they all look like they have bolt-on breasts
Because that statue depicts a Scythian and Scythians were tacky
That’s clearly a biased reproduction as Greeks had Black skin
Colorful, highly decorated clothing was the norm all the way until white tie became the standard formal dress.
This is the indo european aesthetic. It only survives in India today
There's no proof the statues were ever painted
other than the residue of paint which you can see with your bare eyes on top of polichromy studies with advanced techniques
Perhaps they were much better painted than that, comparable to the painted statues of Spanish art
North euros don´t know how to paint
Hes posing like a homosexual
They identified the pigments from one area and then applied it to the entire area where that pigment makes at least some sense. It is like using the eyedropper tool for a single pixel and then using the paint bucket tool to colour it in and then wondering why it looks weird.
This is of course understandable because most of the pigment didn't survive so they are working off incomplete information but people arguing that this is "more accurate" don't know what they are talking about.