EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Vanishing Point, Erwin Panofsky
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Anonymous painter, miracle of st. guido, 1316 florence. Andrei rublev, the holy trinity, 1411, moscow. We are not being drawn into the painting. As we"ve seen in these other images, there are other ways of organizing a picture and constructing meaning. Even though we experience perspective in our vision, it does not mean this is how art must portray reality. Human beings generally, even those born with so-called artistic talent, are never automatically inclined to draw images in the same way we perceive them perspectivally - that is, according to the geometric-optical laws of vision . That is, we have to differentiate two phenomena: At the level of vision, or the optical-neural level, we can assume that everyone equipped with the same basic bio-physical apparatus, can see the same things in the same way. This is a remarkable fact that is not obvious to most people.
