Category Archives: fine art

I remember when I was in school many years ago a teacher told me that I was born in the wrong century. She wasn’t talking about art, but the statement would apply to that too, since our culture, and intellectual … Continue reading →

  Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), Florentine architect, one of the initiators of the Italian Renaissance. His revival of classical forms and his championing of an architecture based on mathematics, proportion, and perspective make him a key artistic figure in the transition … Continue reading →

             Everything here is based on the station point; this is where you the viewer are in relation to everything else. It is often called the "principle vanishing point", but I would like to stay away from any terminology here that … Continue reading →

Artists do not study perspective as much these days as in the past. Possibly only those who put together a montage of disparate elements to make up a scene would need to work out the perspective of each part, but … Continue reading →

  When I was in college a professor told me that he didn’t see things as black and white, but as different shades of gray according to your circumstances. As for me, I’m a black and white kind of a … Continue reading →