HEY BRUNELLESCHI!

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 anything, the single, fixed, monocular viewpoint does not exist in our everyday world.  We are constantly moving;  complete stasis of the human body and eye is impossible.

Which makes you wonder why we swallowed, hook line and sinker, the Renaissance picture plane.  It makes you wonder why we didn’t say, hey Alberti, your fixed point perspective theories are irrelevant to us!

Or we might have said, hey Brunelleschi, we’re all moving around all the time.  So your perspective experiments with the Baptistery are quaint, but useless.  What do you think we are, statues?

If we would have shouted, hey Brunelleschi, much earlier, who knows what would have happened.  We might have jump started Cubism, for instance, right there where the Renaissance was taking off.   We could have chopped off a few centuries of cultural fodder by immediately liberating the eye from the Cartesian perspectival methodology.

The Impressionists would have blossomed in about 1780.  The Futurists could have gotten their thing going in about 1795. What a world it would have been.

The entire course of history could have been improved if only we would have shouted, “…hey Brunelleschi…”