Seeing Picasso, Fixing Cézanne
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching
| Author: | Peter V. Moak | ISBN: | 9781490786629 |
| Publisher: | Trafford Publishing | Publication: | February 1, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Trafford Publishing | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter V. Moak |
| ISBN: | 9781490786629 |
| Publisher: | Trafford Publishing |
| Publication: | February 1, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Trafford Publishing |
| Language: | English |
The works of Pablo Picasso and Paul Czanne are based on particular ways of seeing. To understand these, we begin with ordinary vision. I open my eyes, and light streams through the lenses and forms pictures on my retinas. From these tiny pictures, my brain places before me a life-size, lens-projected, stable, upright, continuous picture of objects in space, the visual world. I recognize this world as the real world even though I know it is an event in my brain, a virtual reality. But how do those tiny pictures come to be the world around me? Part of my answer would be the imagined scaled to the visual world presence I have, in relation to which I see the visual world. I call what is an imagined generalized image of my face my visual ego.
The works of Pablo Picasso and Paul Czanne are based on particular ways of seeing. To understand these, we begin with ordinary vision. I open my eyes, and light streams through the lenses and forms pictures on my retinas. From these tiny pictures, my brain places before me a life-size, lens-projected, stable, upright, continuous picture of objects in space, the visual world. I recognize this world as the real world even though I know it is an event in my brain, a virtual reality. But how do those tiny pictures come to be the world around me? Part of my answer would be the imagined scaled to the visual world presence I have, in relation to which I see the visual world. I call what is an imagined generalized image of my face my visual ego.
