Speaking of Giotto......I found this Sol Lewitt quote doing research for a recent project: "If you look at some of the paintings of Giotto… They look almost like cubist paintings, because at the time, while the idea of linear perspective was known, it was still considered necessary to adhere to the flatness of the wall… I started going to Italy in the seventies, and I lived there for a time in the eighties. Large-scale frescoes were all around. It seemed like a natural way of making art. Once I got the idea of working on the wall, then it became the whole wall. The work became tied to the idea of the context of the space, the wall, the room inside, outside. The great models of that in Western art were right there, where I was living in Italy."
Speaking of Giotto......I found this Sol Lewitt quote doing research for a recent project:
ReplyDelete"If you look at some of the paintings of Giotto… They look almost like cubist paintings, because at the time, while the idea of linear perspective was known, it was still considered necessary to adhere to the flatness of the wall… I started going to Italy in the seventies, and I lived there for a time in the eighties. Large-scale frescoes were all around. It seemed like a natural way of making art. Once I got the idea of working on the wall, then it became the whole wall. The work became tied to the idea of the context of the space, the wall, the room inside, outside. The great models of that in Western art were right there, where I was living in Italy."
so influential. (DUH)
thank you adrienne!
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also, i just really love when the idea that art completely changed in the 20th century is undermined.
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