“Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.” KnowsArtMomentsRealityViewsEffectsPerspectiveAppearancePoint Of ViewSpectatorsPrehistory Book:The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art Source: The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art
“Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.” RealityArtistRepresentationAbstraction Book:The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art Source: The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art
