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Jul 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Dec 17, 2024
[Japanese viewers] "would experience the shock of coming suddenly across European perspective–the violent funnelling of space toward a single vanishing point, the panicky squeezing of a world that had reposed for all those centuries in the unhurried expanse of tranquil parallels" The reception of perspective in the non-West has been a contested body of evidence for this question. The conclusions of authors who have studied the reception of western perspectival art by non-European peoples is mixed. An eighteenth-century Chinese artist and writer stated that: "The Westerners are skilled in geometry. . .When they paint houses on a wall people are tempted to walk into them. . .But these painters have no brush-manner whatsoever; although they possess skill, they are simply artisans." Arnheim suggests reading of history of painting in Japan: "they would e...
"To arouse in ourselves some of the anguish experienced by the artists who bravely accepted and imitated the imported nightmares of distortion is the best way I can think of to cure us of this bit of Western provincialism."
"From the standpoint of splendid scenery, painting cannot equal [real] landscape. But from the standpoint of the sheer marvels of brush and ink, [real] landscape is not at all the equal of painting."

-Dong Qichang (1555-1636) The late-Ming master of literati Dong Qichang if;lt~ (1555-1636) commented on the relationship between nature and painting, as quoted and translated by James Cahill: 'From the standpoint of splendid scenery, painting cannot equal [real] landscape. But from the standpoint of the sheer marvels of brush and ink, [real] landscape is not at all the equal of painting.'1 This early-seventeenth-century remark about Chinese landscape painting demonstrates the mutually irreplaceable status of nature and painting as reflected in contemporary artistic discourse. However, in the European Renaissance, Le...
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Oct 28, 2024
Woah!

In Portugal's Côa Valley, a Paleolithic artist painted a deer-like figure on a rock wall. Several thousand years later, another artist engraved a rider atop the animal, "a horseman with typical Iron Age weapons". "Iron Age warrior image superimposed above a cervid figure of Paleolithic typology at the Coa Valley site of Vermelhosa" https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Paleolithic-open-air-rock-art-sites-of-the-C-oa-Valley-1-Vale-da-Casa-2-Vale-de-Cabr_fig18_225545384
It's modern/global discovery occurred in the 1990s during a dam building project. But the most recent art was from just a century prior!

Humans had been making images here repeatedly for around 24,000 years Image
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Oct 24, 2024
I love encountering "steelman" explanations for "unrealistic" nonmodern art. For eg, many cultures prefer "split-type" images over naturalistic ones. Instead of assuming lack of ability, Jan B. Deregowski points out split-type images give more information than perspective images Image
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(eg. we see the elephant's legs too).
I do think many techniques for realism require a lot of invention that these cultures may indeed have lacked...but adding points like this changes realism's development from a straight upwards line of progress into something more interesting.
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May 31, 2024
is this real

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Original here! Rt this one.

(Seems like the mystery isn’t solved yet)
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Apr 17, 2024
Mass literacy destroyed many complex systems of dactylonomy (finger counting/finger math) used in the ancient world.

There were methods for approximately calculating square roots and counting to 9,999 on two hands. Image
"The earliest reference to this method of using the hands to refer to the natural numbers may have been in some Prophetic traditions going back to the early days of Islam during the early 600s." Image
"In Arabic, dactylonomy is known as 'Number reckoning by finger folding'"

"The gesture for 50 was used by some poets (for example Ibn Al-Moutaz) to describe the beak of the goshawk." Image
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Apr 17, 2024
The Iñupiat of Alaska traditionally use a base-20 number system. In 1994, students at Kaktovik middle school worked with their teacher to invent a way to write this, since they found our base-10 unfamiliar. After the invention of Kaktovik numerals, test scores rose significantly

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The differences between the standard Arabic number system and theirs is more complicated than just a different base number - they also have a sub-base of 5
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