hsfc-foundation week 3

Dr John Crossley

#3

HSFC FOUNDAION SEMINAR

Ways of Seeing 2

Paintings and Photographs

Taddeo Gaddi, The Presentation of the Virgin (1332-3) 1662-1665 It is possible to think of single point perspective- which is the way that photographs see- as only one way of

Filippo di Ser Brunellesco (1377-1446)

Brunellesco painted two panels in the course of an experiment that according to Edgerton “marked an event which ultimately was to change the modes, if not the course of Western history�.

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Picasso, Ambroise-Vollard, 1910

Cubism was an all-out assault on habits not on tween 1908 and the first world war, Picasso and some sort of anchor, stuck to traditional genres

Use of Camera Obscura to project images for painting

Vermeer, Music Lesson, 1662-1665 Verneer proabably projected his images and the photographic representation of perspective is shown by the vanishing lines

It is possible to think of single point perspective- which is the way that photographs see- as only one way of seeing. For example, the buildings have straight vertical walls but photographs always tend to warp.

Picasso, AmbroiseVollard 1910

Chuck Close, Frank Cubism was an all-out assault on habits not only of painting but of seeing. In their revolution between 1908 and the first world war, Picasso and Georges Braque, as if to provide the viewer with some sort of anchor, stuck to traditional genres - the still-life and the portrait. By starting with the assumptions of pictorial content that a portrait brings, cubist painting is all the better able to subvert them.

Can paintings be more realistic than photographs?