The history of art reaches back to the mists of mankind’s
earliest beginnings, but in which centuries do scholars believe
scientific theories began to define style apart from content?
#106452. Asked by queproblema. (Jun 19 09 5:52 PM) The 14th and
15th centuries.| One could argue that when our common ancestors
first represented three dimensional animals as two dimensional
cave paintings that they were in fact making use of perspective,
spatial relations and even geometry albeit in a very informal
and instinctual way. That said, I always thought that
Pointillism, a term from the 19th century used to describe the
style of painting using numerous dots that coalesce into
intelligible shapes and colors in a viewer's mind, was the
beginning of scientific theory trumping content in art (at least
in painting). "Pointillism is a style of painting in which small
distinct dots of color create the impression of a wide selection
of other colors and blending. Aside from color "mixing"
phenomena, there is the simpler graphi