EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Panoramic Painting
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** what is the effect on the modern subject. The most important ambivalence for us will be the status of the modern subject, indicated by the viewer of paintings in linear perspective. Given great power to shape, fashion, create, interpret space and the world. Very quickly in the late renaissance and then especially the 17th century artists began playing with and disrupting the ambivalence inherent in linear perspective. It"s a fun chapter in western art. Is a play with perspective that also highlights its ambivalences. It further distorts reality, gives the viewer new creative power, but also literally shifts the position of the viewer: It places into doubt the possibility of art to present the truth of nature. We could say that it places the dominance of linear perspective into perspective , i. e. , shows that there are mysteries beyond what we can grasp from our finite point of view. Ana = back, again and morphe/morphosis = shape.
