David Hockney's Secret Knowledge (part 6/8)

Il segreto svelato - Sottotitoli in Italiano

David Hockney analizza la tecnica dei maestri "classici" dal XV al XVII secolo e sottolinea come a partire dagli artisti fiamminghi del Quattrocento siano stati usati in pittura specchi, lenti e altri ausili ottici.

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Science & Technology

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• Arte

[josvanr]

but wait a sec: drawing... ok. But how do you paint in a dark room like that? You can't see anything...

[mikemadej]

You paint after in the light. Try it. It works.

[nelsano3]

@robitusson Uncanny accuracy and detail in a certain section of the projection. Once you move the canvas to get focus on another part of the picture in the projection, YOU LOOSE SCALE. Hench the hand looks bigger than the bowl of fruit in the Caravaggio painting. He quite clearly says this in this clip; PAY ATTENTION!! God i sound as strict as him :)

[robitusson]

On the one hand earlier in the documentary the use of lenses accounts for uncanny accuracy, but here it also accounts for ridiculous inaccuracies as well! Everything gets funnelled into "evidence" for Hockney's idea regardless of how contradictory, how illogical or how fantastical it is.

[madamewho]

Some of the greatest paintings painted upsidedown! Who would have thought...