WHITE OR COLORED?

[Tarbicus]

Any Artist is going to use 'light and shade'etc.

No they're not, especially when the Sun itself does the job of adding light and shade, the detail having exquisitely been added with a chisel and files. etc. This is definitely a case of modern tastes and thinking being heaped onto a foreign and ancient people with a bulldozer. I haven't seen any evidence so far of shading statues that is pre-Giotto, which is a thousand years later.

Also, there are plenty of examples of painted statues which are being completely ignored, even from modern times, that are not shaded and unsullied by the Renaissance and modern Western influences:

http://static.flickr.com/42/125072730_b ... 31.jpg?v=0



http://www.adriannesonline.com/images/stat1a.jpg

http://dbc.dharmakara.net/img/shakya05.jpg



http://static.flickr.com/38/123674622_5 ... d4.jpg?v=0

http://www.cntravel.biz/china_tour_dest ... 0024wm.jpg



Notice anything familiar?