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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9729110" data-attributes="member: 7025508"><p>I am an art teacher, so I obviously am well aware of the importance of technique in art. But your view seem to be incredibly reductive. Yes, we have some materials and techniques artists in the past didn't. But does this mean we produce better art? It obviously doesn't. And I think it is simplistic to even think this in terms of direct technological progress. It is extremely misleading. Yes, some techniques have been invented, some have also been lost. Rarely completely in a sense that we no longer would have no idea how they were done (though sometimes that happens too) but simply that these techniques are no longer practiced. My photographer friend recently lamented how the finer nuances of working with the film cameras are about to become lost art, and that of course is very recent tech. It is foolish to think that we today know everything Leonardo did, or indeed even what Gauguin or Picasso did, let alone artists of ancient Greece or Egypt. It is quite possible that with the advent of AI, the genuine skills to create the art that we have today will be lost to history too.</p></blockquote><p></p>