Tagged: ART AND ILLUSION

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HISTORY

PLATO’S PREDICTION

The linear perspective was invented by the Greeks.  Simultaneously, illusionist depiction had it’s first critic, Plato.  In a previous page, Plato On Perspective, we took a first look at Plato’s objection to representational drawing....

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HISTORY

THE GREEK PERSPECTIVE

By all accounts, the Greeks were the first civilization to draw and paint their pictures according to the basic rules of liner perspective. Although we are typically taught that Representational Spacetime started in Florence,...