''Pictures give evidence, Lens and Mirrors make pictures''
''For an artist to see it, is to use it''
David Hockney is an artist who uses the style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout, so that the subject would actually move while being photographed and it would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographers perspective. - Although later Hockney decided to change the technique and moved the camera around the subject instead.
*Hockney also designs is own Hollywood sets
In this fascinating documentary I learnt something about paintings that absolutely stunned me as it was unexpected - something that never crossed my mind nor my peers about the technique that artists used 600years ago around 1450- Something that artists even now would not have thought of.
Artists such as Caravagio -( whose work I saw in Italy (Rome) in the summer )
used a curved mirror (lens) focusing the sun rays and burning an image - then traced their subject on canvas.
This method of conquered mirror was used for 1 century -(by using a mirror you can only produce a small image 320cm) until the lens was invented which is more versatile.
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