How to be a better painter
Based on the notes in his notebook:
What is the function of the eye?
Painting is concerned with the 10 attributes of sight:
- form and
- distance and
- motion and
‘use these rules to imitate works of nature which adorn the world.’
Mathematics and art
five terms of mathematicians:
- the point
- the line
- the angle
- the superficies
- the solid
Different types of lines:
- (has no breadth, height, or depth)— indivisible.
line: has no matter nor substance; is an imaginary idea than a real object— because in nature it occupies no space.
drawing is based on perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye:
perspective is when the eye is knowledgeable how to see.
Impressions of images on the eye:
‘if you look at the sun and then shut your eyes, you will see it inside your eyes for a long time. that is evidence that images enter the eye’
the eye is the target of images
Question: How do images that enter our eye; effect our mind and emotions?