Tagged: PLATO

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PLATO’S PREDICTION

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....

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HISTORY

PLATO ON PERSPECTIVE

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...