EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Panoramic Painting, Modern Art
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However, the perspective conventions can themselves be regarded from another, less confident, point of view which came to fascinate and the theorists of the later. 16th century and earlier 17th centuries who transmitted and perfected the teachings of the earlier masters . This is gilman"s answer and the makings of his thesis: one way to understand the power and limitations of perspectival art is to explore the art form of anamorphosis. It gives us a different point of view by exploiting and subverting the techniques of linear perspective. Gives incredible insight into symbolic form of linear perspective. The spectator"s secure vantage point is undermined in another way, even as it seems to be firmly established . The more perfect the representation of reality achieved in a perspective picture, the more perfect is the deception practiced on the viewer. Alberti"s window opens onto an illusion of reality; these two irreconcilable categories are joined in the perspective painting .
