20 June 2018 Art Theories Exercise 1.0 In his book, The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle writes that there are “portions of the real world, objective facts in the world, that are only facts by human agreement. I need to make a list of 10 such ‘things’ that exist only because we believe them […]
PART A “The whole technical power of painting depends on our recovery of what may be called the innocence of the eye; that is to say, a sort of childish perception of these flat stains of colour, merely as such, without consciousness of what they signify, – as a blind man would see them if […]
The assignment asks of me to draw an outdoor scene of my choice – the view should also allow you to demonstrate your understanding of aerial or linear perspective. My reference to the handbag looking like a window in a previous post on perspective is a thought I would like to continue for this […]