The Science of Vision, or Natural Perspective!: Containing the True Language of the Eye, Necessary in Common Observation, Education, Art and Science; ... Basis of the Art of Design (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from The Science of Vision, or Natural Perspective!: Containing the True Language of the Eye, Necessary in Common Observation, Education, Art and Science; Constituting the Basis of the Art of Design

Let us now enquire into the import of pictures; in general they are looked upon only as luxuries or ornaments, produc tions more for pleasure than for any instructive benefit but if we consider an importance that really belongs to them, and the influence works of art have in forming our notions or ideas of external nature, from the first picture-book put into our infant hands till we become men of taste and connoisseurs in art and science, we shall not fail to see that if these productions be not the natural language of the eye, and do not communicate what they ought to do, that it were better pictorial art had never been known. Pictures purport to be, and are generally considered, true representatives of what is seen; it will not take much pains to expose and prove this to be a delusion; for, let any one consider his own knowledge and experience, and then revert to the standard character of drawing, and he will see at once that both theory and art have always falsified nature in one particular, which blunder has prevented the rest of the subject from being correct.

For instance, on looking up to any lofty parallel surface, as a tower of a church, &c., every one has perceived in his own vision that the top appears narrower than the same breadth at the bottom, which is the infallible and constant effect of seeing; and yet there is not a picture in the world that has that effect, and consequently no picture (prior to my own) has been drawn as mankind see objects. If every artifice be tried, nothing can destroy this natural effect - it must be seen; neither can any artifice be resorted to, to enable the eye to see natural objects as they have been delineated. Parallel perpendicular lines, Cr all the upright lines of buildings, have always been drawn so, whether seen on lofty eminences or down below in valleys.

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