03-15-2021, 01:49 AM
(03-14-2021, 12:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-29-2019, 11:54 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Objective naturalism in art. This really separates the Renaissance from earlier times, in part by making perspective relevant. People who violate the rules can get away with it, but only if they violate those rules for compelling reasons. Perspective allows people to see the world in three dimensions (with obvious limitations) , which allows for more detail in the expression of images.
Perspective also makes analytic geometry and the calculus possible.
Western civilization predates the Renaissance and its styles by two millennia, at least. It has gone through many phases, some more spiritually and religiously driven, and others more naturalist, humanist and objective. In our modern era, starting in circa 1890s, objectivism and naturalism were put on the back burner, and a new WORLD civilization has been being born, which shall be our heritage henceforth.
Of course, all Western cultures underwent the Renaissance or have cultures derived from it. Medieval ways of life are now rare in the West.
It is obviously true that some cultures that can't be fully seen as Western (Japan is a prime example) adopted much that is Western, such as... perspective in the arts.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.