Tagged: LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

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CHRISTIANITY AND THE LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

Without Christianity, would the linear perspective have been invented / discovered?  The interior of the great basilicas were, when you either drew or painted them, automatically in perspective.  Did the confluence of Christianity and...

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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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GOD’S VIEW

Does God see transparently? “Perspective makes the single eye the center of the visible world.  Everything converges on to the eye as to the vanishing point of infinity.  The visible world is arranged for...

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PLATO ON PERSPECTIVE

In The Republic, it is nice to hear that Plato was skeptical of the linear perspective.  Writing in 380 BC, he states in Book X: “Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed...

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PERCEPTUAL THINKING

Let’s try teaching our scientists to think like artists. One of the themes of these pages is the confluence of art and science. We have talked about scientists using the same language as artists....

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VISUAL CAUSALITY

It is accepted wisdom that we base our understanding of the world on repeated observations of cause and effect. Billiard balls will bounce off of each other in a very predictable way. The coffee...

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TONE AND LINE

Transparent Drawing requires that you draw lines and then put tones between the lines. At least that is what I do. We should give some of our attention to the matter of tones and...