03.27.2017 David Hockney’s perspective
“Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney
“Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective…” – David Hockney
In his article called Reverse perspective written in 1919, Pavel Florenski (1882-1937) revived the true aura of the icon in relation to the universally revered art of the Renaissance.
However framed the image may be, it is neither a reflection of reality nor does it reveal the truth. It masks it.
The optical illusion of perspective expresses the omnipotence of man over a Nature.
The science underpinning perspective was theorised and became a model during the Renaissance by the great Italian humanist artists.