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 history with respect to the location of the vanishing point, it has a cyclical history. As we said at the page […]
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28Jul
2017
ORDINARY BUILDING – MOROCCO
2017
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 time you enter an enclosed courtyard in say a Riad or a Madrassa, you immediately look up to the spectacular sky. […]
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26Jul
2017
MULTIVIEW
2017
Let’s introduce a new term into Transparent Drawing; multiview. We have been using this term off and on as it applies to Byzantine imagery. See for example Byzantine Spacetime. The term multiview has been applied in these pages to the Cubist and Futurist system of form making. See Transcend Cubism. There is in the lexicon […]
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24Jul
2017
THE VANISHING POINT IS WITHIN YOU
2017
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 viewer. Whereas in Medieval painting, “…the focus and vanishing point are in the spectator.”p11 As we saw in our coverage of […]
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21Jul
2017
IMPROVISATION
2017
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 is the typical arrangement of flat forms on a flat canvas. One of the most amazing features of a painting such […]
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19Jul
2017
GOD’S VIEW
2017
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 spectator as the universe was once thought to be arranged for God.” p15. Thinking about what God sees, one would […]
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17Jul
2017
THE BANALITY AND THE ECSTASY
2017
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 the Cold War. Another name for the facility is the Cold War Museum of Ottawa. The technical name for the facility […]
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14Jul
2017
FORM GENERATION – AN EXAMPLE
2017
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 Form Givers. The forms in a typical Picasso Cubist painting are essentially flat. The shapes that LeCorbusier painted on his canvases […]
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12Jul
2017
EVILS OF SUPERFICIALITY
2017
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 he can do, to his friends and his tradition and his love, lest he be dissolved in a universal confusion and […]
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10Jul
2017
WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT
2017
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 just spent a few days in Ottawa. After parking the car, practically the first urban scene that I am presented with […]
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