EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Anamorphosis, Paradigm Shift, Sidereus Nuncius
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A dramatic shift in the way we in the west see and depict the world. We can call this a paradigm shift or gestalt shift. A new of seeing - from flat , natural perspective to. Our senses neural connections still the same, but people still see differently. Once western painting. culture made the leap into the new paradigm, we can"t help but imagine that our way of seeing is the only true way. Recall the shift from art as mirror of nature to art as window onto nature . Of course, beyond even anamorphosis, which plays with and exaggerates linear perspective, a few hundred years later new paradigms and ways of seeing emerges. As in pablo picasso"s on the beach (1937) Yes, there might be human nature ; but also fundamental changes under the peculiar demand of specific historical contexts. Recall edgerton: only under the particular conditions of renaissance florence did this symbolic form develop.
