GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aboriginal Australians, Chinese Art, Pareidolia
16 Oct 2020
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God"s eye point of view - looking down on something from above some. Some 15,16,17 century maps were not drawn from god"s eye - instead they were drawn from field level view - meaning that someone was walking around drawing what they saw exactly how they saw it. Objects were upside down and side ways. Traditional chinese art - jiehua (ruled line painting) - use of a ruler to give an accurate depiction of architectural forms - this helped artist draw things in perspective. So objects supposed to be further way were smaller than objects that were drawn close. Note: maps are culturally constituted - different cultures draw and interpret maps differently from one another. Having cultural knowledge of the map can be helpful when trying to decipher. Described as the intersection of cartography and art - - that is different cultures understand the landscape and represent it graphically in different ways.
