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The Painting Lesson
by Linda Carson
big black pig studio
98 King St. N., Waterloo Ontario Canada
www.bigblackpig.com
Linear Perspective
During the Renaissance, European artists—especially Italian architect Brunelleschi—worked out the geometric particulars of how we perceive depth when we look at linear objects such as roads and buildings.
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For example: A road that wanders away from the viewer appears to get narrower the farther away it gets. |
This recession can be rigorously described, reproduced and even imagined so accurately that the pictorial space in a painting is completely "realistic." The accomplishments of Renaissance painters in the use of linear perspective (and its cousin aerial perspective) are amazing when you realize they worked entirely by eye and geometry, without ever having seen or studied a photograph.
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