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In article <Xns### [at] povray org>, ing### [at] tag povray org
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> in news:MPG.1811f5d8a1d66a89989682@news.povray.org Sander Stols wrote:
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> > He certainly did not use a camera for his painting "Milkmaid". Try
> > and figure out the perspective in this painting! It's near impossible
> > to get it right.
>
> One of the things that David Hockney points out as an evidence for the use
> of cameras with lenses are these strange perspectives.
> The lens isn't able to project the whole scene at once on the canvas and
> there is also the depth of field. So for one painting the lans has to be
> moved a few times. Each movement results in a change of perspective. Nice
> examples for this are people with too big or small heads an too long legs.
> I don't have Hockney's book here at the moment, but when I have it back
> I'll post a few links too images that show these perspective quircks.
>
> Ingo
>
That is all very true, I remember having read about this book and his
theory.
Nevertheless I suppose a painter like Vermeer wanted to paint something
that represented reality. I conceed I never realised that in his
Milkmaid the perspective is strange/weird. Looking at the painting it
doesn't bother me one moment. But at the same time it is not realistic.
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Regards, Sander
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