Post 6: Multiple Viewpoints
“We have kept our eyes open
to our surroundings and also our brains.”
Wrote Picasso, about how he
and Georges Braque developed the multiple viewpoints represented in the
revolutionary art of Cubism. (Bird, 2012, pg. 142)
With the advent of
photography, which translates from Greek as “Drawing with light”, Photographers
could do tricks to show different perspectives and movement within a single
composition. This helped to give artists the understanding and idea of
portraying an object or figure as the eye actually views it, often from
different angles. The single-viewpoint perspective had competition and would be
ignored by a whole new group of artists. These artists could see beyond a fixed
space and time; they chose to push through the boundaries into the realm of multi-dimensions.
To use this idea in an art
piece I can think of a two things…first is a mobile made of mirrors on one side
and photo pieces of a face on the back of each mirror. The other is to use a
trifold mirror and rig it up to automatically move each side mirror ever so
slightly back and forth by controlling two different levers.
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