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Dear Creationist Science Association For Mid-America,
I'm intrigued by your assertion here that dinosaurs simply must have coexisted with people because people created images of them in their art. As I've been learning as an art history major, all art throughout history has been purely representational. Although you probably don't believe that the earth existed in the years 30,000-25,000 BC, there is nevertheless an image of a human that exists from that time. I'm sure you can see that the Venus of Willendorf is an exact rendering of what the subject of this sculpture must have looked like because, of course, all artists are known for their infallibility and inability to deviate from what they see right in from of them.
The ancient Egyptians must have had quite the society of wonders from the things they've shown in their art. Although I'm sure you don't recognize their deities as gods, there had to have been at least one man with the head of a jackal and some guy with the head of an ibis running around. And can you picture a sphinx walking through the marketplace, just ever so nonchalantly, on his lion legs and scanning the merchandise with his human head? I'm sure all the artists were clamoring to paint and sculpt them to record them for all of us to see today. Even though the Egyptians undoubtedly had a different word for "sphinx," I'm very glad they preserved that image so I can picture their society more accurately.
Of course this brilliant exact depiction of things continued. It's shown very well in the High Renaissance. Take Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel in the early 16th century. Obviously God himself must have replayed this scene just for Michaelangelo for him to have painted it from sight. Otherwise, how would he have known God has such a long beard and Adam had such a small penis?
We can infer lots of other historical facts things from art as well. Van Gogh often frequented placed with bright colors, thick lines, and blotchy stars. Monet knew girls who had very few facial features and very few fingers. Gauguin brought back the knowledge that Tahiti is a pretty trippy place with multicolored water. Picasso, who could paint realistic and well-rendered figures, also knew some people with bodies made solely of shapes.
Obviously dinosaurs in art fit right in with every other piece of art ever made. I'll tell the next paleontologist I meet that obviously my studies are far more relevant to prehistoric creatures than his and I'll save us both the quest for more knowledge. And I'll never have to analyze another piece of art again!
Yours truly,
Shoshana
I'm intrigued by your assertion here that dinosaurs simply must have coexisted with people because people created images of them in their art. As I've been learning as an art history major, all art throughout history has been purely representational. Although you probably don't believe that the earth existed in the years 30,000-25,000 BC, there is nevertheless an image of a human that exists from that time. I'm sure you can see that the Venus of Willendorf is an exact rendering of what the subject of this sculpture must have looked like because, of course, all artists are known for their infallibility and inability to deviate from what they see right in from of them.
The ancient Egyptians must have had quite the society of wonders from the things they've shown in their art. Although I'm sure you don't recognize their deities as gods, there had to have been at least one man with the head of a jackal and some guy with the head of an ibis running around. And can you picture a sphinx walking through the marketplace, just ever so nonchalantly, on his lion legs and scanning the merchandise with his human head? I'm sure all the artists were clamoring to paint and sculpt them to record them for all of us to see today. Even though the Egyptians undoubtedly had a different word for "sphinx," I'm very glad they preserved that image so I can picture their society more accurately.
Of course this brilliant exact depiction of things continued. It's shown very well in the High Renaissance. Take Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel in the early 16th century. Obviously God himself must have replayed this scene just for Michaelangelo for him to have painted it from sight. Otherwise, how would he have known God has such a long beard and Adam had such a small penis?
We can infer lots of other historical facts things from art as well. Van Gogh often frequented placed with bright colors, thick lines, and blotchy stars. Monet knew girls who had very few facial features and very few fingers. Gauguin brought back the knowledge that Tahiti is a pretty trippy place with multicolored water. Picasso, who could paint realistic and well-rendered figures, also knew some people with bodies made solely of shapes.
Obviously dinosaurs in art fit right in with every other piece of art ever made. I'll tell the next paleontologist I meet that obviously my studies are far more relevant to prehistoric creatures than his and I'll save us both the quest for more knowledge. And I'll never have to analyze another piece of art again!
Yours truly,
Shoshana