July 26, 2007
Did the Great Masters Cheat?
Sometime back I read an article by Gregg Kruetz. He was refuting two books that proclaimed that many of the great masters from the Renaissance and beyond used optical aids to achieve the advances in perspective and drawing.
Take a look at www.greggkreutz.com/WrittenBY/camera_absurda.html. Gregg does a good job of taking them apart with simple logic and a good knowledge of painting and drawing from life.
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October 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
I recall reading somewhere a long time ago that Norman Rockwell began using some image aid — he reasoned that he knew he could draw accurately but found it quicker to use the aid. Philosophical question — is that “cheating?”