Why did Neolithic art look so abstract?

Because realism takes skill.

>>2471596
It's like preschool art but on a global scale.

>>2471596
because sex is pretty abstract.

>>2471605

It's a skill only autists and uncreative people value.

>luks juz like real!!!

>>2471596
>all those thicc women

>>2471605
Fuck, this actually makes more sense that Id like to admit

>>2471605
>>2471701

You haven't seen the cave paintings then.

>>2471605
It takes dedication, you just haven't the time to meliorate when you're trying to survive

i love how the venuses of thiccness trigger pol. there's some hilarious infographic trying to show how its not actually thicc

>>2471596
Because these are probably self-made examples of 'vulgar art' (i.e. (not professional cottage industry). Most likely they are fertility or birth charms. They weren't meant to look realistic.

Meanwhile, there are cave paintings just as old that are pretty freakin' realistic.

>>2471596

THAT IS PALEOLITHIC, NOT NEOLITHIC.

T H I C C

Entire top row is dragon dildos.

>>2471596
It's all either T H I C C or its P H A L L I C C

Fertility is all important.

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>>2471596
Pretty accurate desu.

>>2471596
because they were only human on an abstract level. I mean think about it, a few generations prior they were essentially animals.

>>2471709
>>2471946
The documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams is practically a religious experience in my opinion

>>2471675
they're generally accepted to be fertility idols
there's a theory they're like that because they're based on pregnant women

>>2471605
no it takes practice
any average joe can draw a realistic portait if they put in the effort
t. average joe who put in the effot

>>2473414
skill is gained by practice (and knowledge)

>>2471605
*realism takes precise tools
ftfy

Which culture made the one in 2nd row 2nd column?

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>>2473464
This one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy

>>2473381
Modern humans have been modern since basically 50,000 years ago. Suddenly at this point, there seems to be an explosion in crafted artifacts found. Before 50,000 years, relatively uncommon. Agriculture was still 40,000 years off. It's believed there was some kind of 'language revolution', perhaps when sophisticated clan and territories became somewhat more solidified, or humans stopped being roaming nomads and more or less stayed within a fixed region.

Before that, they were still human, but a little more genetically/phenotypically archaic. Yet we still had the knowledge to make fire, to sew, to make sophisticated stone axes and arrowheads, to make tents and huts.

>>2473389
Go to a cave IRL. It's fucking awesome. I went to one in southern France, it's not super famous but you can take a guided tour 2km into a cave. There was a dozen cave drawings of horses, deer, lions, bison/aurochs, rhino, sometimes mammoth.

>>2471605
>art in one post

>>2471642
>benis in vagina

What are the odds that all the fertility statues are based on actual fat women? Is there any way a woman in those times could have gotten as fat as some of the idols?

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>>2472024

I swear I've seen you everywhere on other boards.

>>2471596

Because it is symbolic art. Those are fertility tokens / charms / fetishes what have you. The same way early christians used a poorly drawn fish as a symbol.

>>2471596

Because Richard Dawkins is a spastic and these are fakes he made when he invented Evolutionism.

>>2471605
Art is seldom about realism

>>2474144
Sure if she's a bitch who has her man feed her all the time.
It's not like they were starving back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-c7n1FpCc

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>>2471655
>>2473414
Realism takes skill, because you can't just do whatever you want to do, abstract art is often times just an excuse used by those who can't properly create any art.

>neolithic
What the fuck is this even supposed to mean?

Do atheists just invent words out of thin-air about ancient antiquity because they hate the bible?

>>2474347
Think of all that game, unhindered natural habitat. Muh spear hunting. And that's your one job, bitches do everything else.

>>2474432

neo=new
lithic=stone age

new stone age

which is of course not when these venus figures were made

>>2474443
>stone age
And what is this supposed to mean?

They are just buzzwords that evolutionists use to fit their worldview of "millions of years". If you accept the Biblical worldview of 6000 years, there's no such thing as bronze or stone age.

>>2474455
stone age means that tools are made of stone
bronze age is when tools are made of bronze
iron age is when things are made of iron

every region has different time-ranges for those eras.

>>2474468
Tools were made of stone, bronze and iron at the same time. There was no "slow progression" between these things.

Stone and bronze are relatively easy and mass made, whereas iron is harder therefore more rarer until the later centuries when blacksmiths became better.

>>2474479

There was no bronzeworking in the neolithic

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>>2474483
Bronze has been used in literally all ancient armies except for some isolated black tribes who live deep in the forests of wherever.

>>2474491

Neolithic was before those ancient times.
Stone tools were used, then copper.

>>2474508
>Neolithic was before those ancient times
So.. before the Flood?

Archeological discoveries suggest that the antediluvian civilization had better technology than antiquity.

>>2474428
>you can't do whatever you want to do
But that's exactly what highly skilled individuals tend to do and why their abstract work looks so great. Just look at Picasso's early work. Realistic. But not his voice.

>>2474521

>/his/: the post

>>2474565
Not an argument, retard.

>>2474571
the flood is not an argument.

>>2474576
>Historic events are not arguments

Here's your last reply.

>>2474587
Are we talking about the Noah flood?

Because else I'd say the only remotely similar flood I can think of, is the sinking of Doggerland.

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>>2474592
The world-wide flood that happened around 2500 BC.

The global flood that all ancient cultures and civilizations talked about (Chinese even mention 8 people surviving it).

The global flood that you, as an edgy atheist, reject because you hate God and so pretend these things never happened.

/discussion

>>2471605
Then why hasn't photography made every other form of visual art obsolete? Why go see Michelangelo's David in Florence when you can see Chad Thundercock's gym-selfies on Instagram?

>>2474611
You gotta try harder with your baits, son

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>>2474631
>troll calling someone else troll

2/10 for the effort

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>>2474611
If a /his/ thread (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will mention the flood.

>>2474144
Clearly some women could get that fat. It probably was not common. People back then could starve to death or suffer malnutrition (specific deficiencies), especially in winter or if game couldn't be found, but generally they had enough.

There is enough physical evidence, from a timespan over 20,000 years or more -- let that sink in -- that these statuettes were relatively unchanged over that span. That means a specific belief, culture and means of passing down that culture -- language. Human statuettes with bear or lion heads are also found, though less often. Again, these span many tens of millennia. They had a specific cultural meaning.

>>2474432
Probably bate, but whatever. Look it up, retard.

>>2474455
troll a little less obviously.

>>>/b/ You can post spiderman pics there, kiddo.

>>2474432
>Do atheists just invent words out of thin-air about ancient antiquity because they hate the bible?
Wait, you didn't know that?
Oh, my poor little homeschooled Christfag. Better spend your weekly internet hour on answersingenesis.org from now on.

I think biblical timelines and mythology and how it relates to history is fascinating, but I wish they'd keep it in their threads. I feel like /his/ has been bombarded by Christian shitposters or regular shitposters trying to make Christians look retarded

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVoYWXQLoWw

>>2471605
Some bushman stone drawings are pretty damn accurate in the depictions of a gallop, the foreshortening of limbs of people and the like. These expressions were discovered in a vacuum.
In contrast = european, especially old was always more concerned with message, either of beauty, power or awe of religion. To get this through you need abstraction

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>>2471596
What if it's not abstract?
What if they cut women's hands and legs and stuffed those women with food?

>>2471605
You and hitler would get along

>>2474614
Because one obviously took much more skill than the other.

>>2479838
Just craftmanship isn't enough, and photorealistic painting is boring as hell. You want a visceral reaction

>>2471605
until you get to the point where its boring

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>>2471596
Homemade porn always emphasizes the sex characteristics currently fetishized.

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Naturalism is not really all that common a goal in art history/