Monday, March 26, 2018

Have An Excellent Monday

work by photographer Trine Søndergaard





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3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Reminds me of Vermeer et. al.. By the way, Vermeer and the other Dutch Masters used a device called the Camera Lucida to do their photorealistic paintings. The Dutch were at that time in history grinding lens in a very precise manner for creating microscopes, glasses, telescopes and other glass-based magnifying devices so the artistic community was able to create devices like the Lucida that predate photography but helped artists in creating photo-like paintings 500 yrs. ago. They also had a crude projection camera called the Camera Obscura as well.Today, of course, modern painters use photography, computer graphics and photography, projectors and even an improved version of the Camera Lucida to draw images. Not everybody has precise hand-eye control and is capable of replicating images by hand alone.

10:40 AM
Jim Sande said...

Yeah, Vermeer was my initial response too. The artist is Danish. I am aware of the use of devices by painters of that time. I use the old grid system for transferring images and as I am not a precise realistic type painter, when I fudge from the original image, no problemo.

12:22 PM
Glynn Kalara said...

Yes, the grid is thousands of years old the Roman and Greeks used something like it. I use Projection at times and photos at others and free drawing at others. It depends. I've even printed out parts of paintings and traced these images. All of it is useful at times. I'm absolutely amazed at artists that can do this stuff freehand and get perfectly realistic drawings. God Bless them but it doesn't make them any more or less of an artist then Pollack or Picasso both of whom didn't give a rats ass about perspective or shape.

12:52 PM

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