Guest Author – Jim Barnes (James David Barnes) — 11th April 20201 James Barnes is a practicing architect living in Dallas, TX. He has written extensively on representation, how we see, the perspective, etc....
Without Christianity, would the linear perspective have been invented / discovered? The interior of the great basilicas were, when you either drew or painted them, automatically in perspective. Did the confluence of Christianity and...
The linear perspective was invented by the Greeks. Simultaneously, illusionist depiction had it’s first critic, Plato. In a previous page, Plato On Perspective, we took a first look at Plato’s objection to representational drawing....
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...
In The Republic, it is nice to hear that Plato was skeptical of the linear perspective. Writing in 380 BC, he states in Book X: “Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed...
Let’s try teaching our scientists to think like artists. One of the themes of these pages is the confluence of art and science. We have talked about scientists using the same language as artists....
It is accepted wisdom that we base our understanding of the world on repeated observations of cause and effect. Billiard balls will bounce off of each other in a very predictable way. The coffee...
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