In article <Xns### [at] povrayorg>, ing### [at] tagpovrayorg 
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> in news:MPG.1811f5d8a1d66a89989682@news.povray.org Sander Stols wrote:
> 
> > 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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