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<p>[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 7873269, member: 75143"]I have zero Sasanian drachms, but I <i>love</i> seeing the degradation of especially the reverse fire attendants.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the beginning, the attendants were rather true-to-life.</p><p>Over the years, they began to be so abstracted that it would be almost impossible to tell what they were supposed to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always wondered <i>why</i> this is. I have two hypotheses.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. The representation of the reverse was a game of telephone. An unskilled engraver attempted to emulate an official template. This was pretty poor, and the next (equally poor) engraver attempted to emulate the poor representation. Rinse and repeat and the game of telephone degenerates to the point where the last guy has no idea what's going on and does his best.</p><p>This is like if I, Hotwheelsearl, attempted to engrave a modern Washington Crossing the Delaware quarter. I cannot draw or do any sort of art at ALL. If I tried to emulate that design, I would butcher it dramatically.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The celator intentionally imputed a sense of his own, local, impressionist/abstract style. </p><p>This is like if Van Gogh did his typical abstract style for the Starry Night, and then subsequent mediocre artists tried to emulate that unique style, ending in some absolute garbage that has almost no relation to the original model:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1356738[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hotwheelsearl, post: 7873269, member: 75143"]I have zero Sasanian drachms, but[I] [/I]I [I]love[/I] seeing the degradation of especially the reverse fire attendants. In the beginning, the attendants were rather true-to-life. Over the years, they began to be so abstracted that it would be almost impossible to tell what they were supposed to be. I always wondered [I]why[/I] this is. I have two hypotheses. 1. The representation of the reverse was a game of telephone. An unskilled engraver attempted to emulate an official template. This was pretty poor, and the next (equally poor) engraver attempted to emulate the poor representation. Rinse and repeat and the game of telephone degenerates to the point where the last guy has no idea what's going on and does his best. This is like if I, Hotwheelsearl, attempted to engrave a modern Washington Crossing the Delaware quarter. I cannot draw or do any sort of art at ALL. If I tried to emulate that design, I would butcher it dramatically. 2. The celator intentionally imputed a sense of his own, local, impressionist/abstract style. This is like if Van Gogh did his typical abstract style for the Starry Night, and then subsequent mediocre artists tried to emulate that unique style, ending in some absolute garbage that has almost no relation to the original model: [ATTACH=full]1356738[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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