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Were Medieval Artists Ahead Of Their Time?
Were Medieval Artists Ahead Of Their Time?
How science is putting art and human vision into a new perspective …
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Were Medieval Artists Ahead Of Their Time?
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Bartc
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Very interesting. Didn't agree until that last illustration brought it home.
I've often explained to folks - including artists - why looking at a tree or wood never seems to come out that way in a photo. Because the photo captures all of it flat, while your brain filters out to find a desirable or recognizable pattern. That much is pretty easily discerned.
This take on it is somewhat different.
I've often explained to folks - including artists - why looking at a tree or wood never seems to come out that way in a photo. Because the photo captures all of it flat, while your brain filters out to find a desirable or recognizable pattern. That much is pretty easily discerned.
This take on it is somewhat different.
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Paintings are seen as objects in the world. Medieval paintings through the use of hierarchal perspective/scaling attempted to depict what we see, but since the paintings are themselves objects in the world we instead see, (in the example painting) -- tiny people sitting around a giant.
The way to depict in a painting the experience we're after is to use - composition, contrast, edges, color, detail, etc. to "direct the eye'" to the subject of the painting. Once the eye "knows" where to focus it will process the scene with the appropriate hierarchal scaling. In other words, we can show the eye where to look, but we can't show it what to see.
The way to depict in a painting the experience we're after is to use - composition, contrast, edges, color, detail, etc. to "direct the eye'" to the subject of the painting. Once the eye "knows" where to focus it will process the scene with the appropriate hierarchal scaling. In other words, we can show the eye where to look, but we can't show it what to see.
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