StaceyG opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 174 posts
Orio posted Tue, 22 March 2005 at 2:18 PM
Blackhearted, yes, I restate that many poses (see the St.Johns by Caravaggio) of those masterpieces are not less direct and provocative than those of today's faeries. As i said, it's the skills that change -and sometimes the context, meaning that the Renderosity artists may often lack the ability to give conceptual depth th their scenes - they are struck by the visual qualities of a subject and forget that art should also be something deeper. But this is not the fault of Renderosity's artists, it is a fault that is general and common to all our contemporary age. As for the thongs and lipstick, they are only today's "accessories". In the past, you had laurel crowns and bowls of fruits and so on. Art should be judged by several aesthetic values. Such are the composition, the forms, the lighting, the colors, and the subject meant as "concept". In this TOS I see the same old problem of judging art (or porn, and the line in-between) only by moralistic prejudices, disregarding ALL artistic values that may be inherent to a picture. Let's make an example: if Donatello lived today and made with Poser an equivalent of his David statue, his artwork would have been censored by Renderosity. Of course this does not mean that we actually have a Donatello amongst us, but - what if we did? What if he subscribes tomorrow?