Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Masters of Illusion




I thought the Masters of Illusion video was very interesting.  I love art history so all of the references and anecdotes about famous artists from the past were very entertaining to me.  The part about linear perspective and how it was developed and discovered was very thought provoking.  I had never thought of perspective as something that had to be discovered, I had always just taken this knowledge for granted.  I also never really thought about artists as being sort of mathematicians and scientists like they are portrayed in this video.  Some of them, such as Uccello, seem so dedicated to their craft its obsessive.

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