VANISHING POINT, A SHORT HISTORY
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...
Monthly Archive: July 2017
ORDINARY BUILDING – MOROCCO
It is the light. The constantly changing light. And the blueness of the sky. In Morocco, I found myself spending a lot of time looking directly up. And one reason was the courtyards. Every...
THE VANISHING POINT IS WITHIN YOU
In the Renaissance, the vanishing point was placed on the surface of the painting, or inside the painting, if you will. The space of the painting then continued outward so as to include the...
IMPROVISATION
If you look at a painting in a certain way, you can begin to see the space. At first blush, a look at this DeKooning painting, titled Gansevoort Street, you might think that it...
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...
THE BANALITY AND THE ECSTASY
It never occurred to me that I would draw it later. Why draw banality? During our Ottawa trip, (previous page about Ottawa here), we went to the Diefenbunker. The Diefenbunker is a relic of...
FORM GENERATION – AN EXAMPLE
Modernist paintings can be great form generators. Two months ago, we questioned why the iconic modernist painters were content to manipulate two dimensional forms on a two dimensional picture plane. See the page Modernist...
EVILS OF SUPERFICIALITY
Oppenheimer: “This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what...
WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT
Ottawa is a fun city. Actually, we love all Canadian cities. Come to think of it, we really like Canada. As in it would be a reasonable place to live. But I digress. We...
CAN’T IT BE ANYTHING BUT ART?
Nice drawing. You must be an artist. In the local paper, there was an article about a young person who does drawings of buildings in our Village. He does not do representational drawings, but...
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