> On the other hand, we mustn't forget that some artists at some > periods used curved mirrors and the camera obscura to paint something > that was very much like a photograph, although certainly not a > snapshot. Ed, this "theory" is already being debunked at the highest level. It is so full of holes that it reeks of BS. Renaissance draftsmanship is inconceivable to artists (mis)trained today, after The Great Devaluation of Academic Skill of last 50 years, but among my father's generation of artists there were still many who possessed abilities and skills to accomplish "photographic" representations of objects with minimal effort. They had all the eye-hand coordination necessary to do this without any optical aids. You should take that Hockney "theory" with a pound of salt. RT
> >>> To add to Caroline's comment: It was a common working practice from >> the Renaissance through at least the early 20th century for artists >> to accumulate drawings and watercolor paintings in sketchbooks as >> they traveled, worked on projects, etc. These sketches would be kept >> as resource material to be used in composing oil paintings. So that To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
