We draw what is right, not what seems right. We draw for truth. Panofsky tells us that there were three components of subjectivity which were codified in the Renaissance representational mindset: subjective emotions, foreshortening,...
The perspective, as it blossomed forth in the Renaissance, worked with newfound rational thinking. Suddenly the world could be explained with the idealized constructs of math, science, logic and the linear perspective. With...
A few pages ago, we made clear that for the Byzantines, in the Middle Ages, the vanishing point was within the viewer. See The Vanishing Point Is Within You. If we look at art...
Has the eye become a fixed, monocular construct? Is the eye truly locked into the Renaissance perspective dimensional grids? Of course not. We move our bodies thru our world on a daily basis. If...
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