by Kelly Latham
I had seen this video before (or at least a slight part of it) in an art history class last semester. I thought that it was interesting in that they used current technology and special effects to point out the successes and flaws of the masters and their understandings of perspective.
Before I saw this film, I just thought that it was a stylistic thing within culture to have everything seem flat and mashed together. It didn’t dawn on me that they did not actually understand how to apply depth to scenes. It makes me wonder if human intelligence had just not been enough to understand it, or if they just didn’t have the nerve to mess with they system. Or maybe they didn’t have the correct tools to create works that would have accurately represented depth and perspective.
I really liked the part of the video with the inlayed wood venire that created extraordinary amounts of depth. It looked so cool! And then I just had to laugh when the camera moved to show that if the viewer moves to the wrong spot, the illusion no longer works. I can imagine that it would be incredibly difficult to paint all that depth, but to use small pieces of wood to piece it together! I could never do it. I am not patient enough.
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