Jeff Lee<SHI### [at] GATENET wrote in message <36e4c3a3.0@news.povray.org>...
>Considering that photorealism is *the* strong point of a raytracer, it's
>not likely to be a trend that will disappear soon.
Maybe you are right. But raytracing is entering into another world, called
art. In Art, "soon" as a word does not have meaning, because of the very
nature of the makers, this is, humans. I would like to make clear that I
see -watch, observe, appreciate, try- raytracing from my point of view,
severely contaminated by years of art history study and above all,
influenced by analysis and philosophy. This has taught me to recognize the
freedom of choice anybody is entitled to, including me. :)
>(Then again, as someone who prefers the realistic portrait miniatures of
>Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver over the paint-spatterings of Jackson
>Pollack or the pencilled-moustaches-on-lithographs-of-Mona-Lisas of
>Marcel Duchamp, I for one hope the photorealistic "trend" of raytracing
>continues for a very long time indeed.) :-)
I would say that, rethinking the whole term, it would be good -for me- to
call it 'cycle' instead. We are still used to think in the space in a XV
century conception. IMHO Brunelleschi never thought about the permanence of
his points., as well as Egyptians never conceived that someone could say
they never knew "how to paint properly", and for sure, Mondrian never
thought his works would be recognized as "L'Oreal" instead of Mondrians.
Everything is "related to" another thing. Indeed, this is an amazing world
to analyze. :-)
BTW, I do not like Pollack, nor Duchamp. I respect every artist but that
does not mean I compromise my choices. I have a lot of 'preferred' artists.
I like Dali, an example, since I first saw his works (years, and years, and
years ago :-) ). I admired that, even being so "classic" (!)-we historians
wannabes call it 'eclectic'- he was able to transform the meaning of
painting. I liked Escher a long -equally eons- time ago, because he was able
to tease so many people before and after his death, especially
psychologists. I like Sorolla, because nobody has been able to re-create the
sun's light as he did, yet. And Caravaggio, and ancient chinese painters
that painted with the main plane up in the canvas, and many others., those
that have had the courage to make their own choices, no matter what the
world thinks.
As time passes, however, I realize that Borges was right when he said before
death: "It is so much I have not read yet!". (*)
Regards,
Marjorie Graterol
(*) I am not English speaker, so please excuse my grammar

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