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| Apr 15, 2019 at 5:57 | comment | added | jamesqf | Likewise, art can have both exactitude and truth. See e.g. Bierstadt's upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/… which is exactly what an antelope looks like - though it's not usual to catch them standing still when you're that close. | |
| Apr 15, 2019 at 5:44 | comment | added | jamesqf | I may not understand some of the allusions in a Titian painting, but if I look at a realistic painting, say for instance Fredric Remington's "The Buffalo Hunt" commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/… I can clearly see that it depicts a buffalo, horses, humans, &c. With a lot of cave paintings, I have considerable difficulty recognizing what they're supposed to be. | |
| Apr 14, 2019 at 14:10 | history | edited | Dave Gremlin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 14, 2019 at 14:05 | history | answered | Dave Gremlin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
