Philo van Kemenade
Creating tools, stories and things in between to amplify human connection with arts and culture.
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[Mesopatamian artists] had to ensure that the image helped to keep the mighty alive.
Wall painting on Thomb in Thebes 1400 BC
We really feel that we are looking at a peaceful scene. Nevertheless, even these works are much less realistic than we might think at first glance.
The Greeks broke through the rigid taboos of early Oriental art, and went out on a voyage of discovery to add more and more features from observation to the traditional images of the world.
Odysseus attacked by Laestrygonians ca. 50 - 40 BC
We feel we can almost touch them, and this feeling brings them and their message nearer to us. To the great masters of the Renaissance, the new devices and discoveries of art were never an end in themselves. They always used them to bring the meaning of their subject still nearer to our minds.
Masaccio 1427
The painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
'Sfumato'
Da Vinci 1502
Géricault 1821
Muybridge 1878
Thomas Nagel 1974
Tactile Vision Sensory Substitution
Paul Bachy-Rita, 1960's
seeing through touch
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monkey gif by headlikeanorange.tumblr.com
Lascaux cave paintings by Adibu456
"Horse racing at Epsom" by Jean Louis Théodore Géricault - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Louis_Th%C3%A9odore_G%C3%A9ricault_001.jpg#/media/File:Jean_Louis_Th%C3%A9odore_G%C3%A9ricault_001.jpg
By Philo van Kemenade
Talk at Devise to Deliver XX, April 2015
Creating tools, stories and things in between to amplify human connection with arts and culture.