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a painted image fails common sense reasoning
. . . in referece to the wikipedia text,
Painting
From Shroudstory.com:
[N]o artist, no craftsman, no faker of relics, could possibly paint a negative of a human face. To do so is like trying to write your signature upside down and backwards. Our minds are programmed for the way we see things in the world; a world where black is black and white is white. It is relatively easy, with talent and training, to paint a picture of what see in the world. And an artist, if he is imaginative, like Picasso, can alter that perception in stylistic ways. But the one thing he can not easily do is to perfectly reverse black and white and all the darker and lighter shades of grey while painting a face.
But imagine, for just a moment, that he could. How would he know he had done it correctly without technology to test his results? A more profound questions is why? In an age so undemanding as the medieval, when any sliver of wood could pass as a piece of the "true cross," any bramble as a piece of the "crown of thorns," why bother?No artist, no craftsman, no faker of relics, could easily paint a negative of a human face. To do so is like trying to write one's signature upside down and backwards. Our minds are programmed for the way we see things in the world; a world where black is black and white is white. It is relatively easy, with talent and training, to paint a picture of what see in the world. And an artist, if he is imaginative, like Picasso, can alter that perception in stylistic ways. But the one thing he can not easily do is to perfectly reverse black and white and all the darker and lighter shades of grey while painting a face.
But imagine, for just a moment, that he could. How would he know he had done it correctly without technology to test his results? A more profound questions is why? In an age so undemanding as the medieval, when any sliver of wood could pass as a piece of the "true cross," any bramble as a piece of the "crown of thorns," why bother?
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