HISTART 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Felice Varini, Guo Xi
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Points of view - only one spot where it looks like circles: all about perspectives. What you see depends on where you stand. Cartographic illusions of scale - the rest of the world compared to africa (europe is much smaller, but it is drawn to a similar scale) The map was adapted from european maps to incorporate other aspects and unknown information about japan to create a new synthesis. People don"t know what"s happening in the us - view from above vs view off into the distance (naturalistic - closer to what the eye sees/ realistic - more life like) Globe where japan is the center - brazil is in the center (bottom corners) Why not the same: different styles from different worldviews, different times and places, also because they are so vastly different looking. Dutch vs asian painting - oil painting on canvas vs the different materials and ink painting.
