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Seeing History: Towards a timeline

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An illustrated timeline and overview of how the human visual environment, and perception of it, has changed from ancient times to virtual reality.

January 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Don’t believe your eyes – visual fidelity and belief

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In the past, people have accepted the reality of mythical creatures, such as winged angels, unicorns, and dragons. When did we start being more objective in our belief of what we see?

January 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Is perspective learned or natural?

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If Brunelleschi had introduced Cubism instead of perspective projection, would that have altered human visual perception?

January 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Illusions of the real

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Paintings on walls and ceilings created a virtual reality long before the term was coined. Even now, they can be breathtaking in effect.

January 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Every picture tells two stories

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We’re easily convinced of the reality of 2D images – as when early audiences panicked as the Lumières’ train ran at them in a movie. How has our exposure to pictures changed, though?

December 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Art of the Brain and a family of portraits

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The founding father of modern neuroanatomy wanted to be an artist, and spent much of his life drawing. He was painted by one of the Madrazo family, among whom was an early Impressionist.

December 14, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Motion and photographic artefact

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What to our ancestors would have been blurred and defective images are now accepted as depicting motion. How our perception has changed, thanks to photography.

December 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Static views

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The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.

December 6, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Colour and class

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Exposure to colour was, for centuries, determined by class. The poor lived in largely drab worlds, but the rich surrounded themselves with vivid hues. This all changed in the late 19th century and the 20th.

November 29, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: The long dark night

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The world looks very different now, compared with the past. This explores differences in lighting, from candlepower to the excesses seen in modern cities, and their effects on painting.

November 22, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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