The Role of Perspective in Contemporary Artistic Practice
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/55882Metadatos
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Nomusa Makhubu
Materia
Perception Perspective Art Science Cognitivism Aesthetic
Date
2019-05-23Referencia bibliográfica
Soriano-Colchero & López-Vílchez, Cogent Arts & Humanities (2019), 6: 1614305
Patrocinador
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y UniversidadesRésumé
The influence of scientific research in art is not exclusively
a contemporary phenomenon. The Alberti model of pictorial representation based
on perspective, as well as the social consideration of art, included Painting among
the liberal arts because of the mathematical principles of geometry which it was
founded on. For more than 400 years, perspective would be called the “science of
art” and it established, almost in a unitary way, a representative model that has
characterised the artistic production and the training of artists until the fracture
represented by the art of the twentieth century. The discussion about the preeminence
of the rational model in the artistic practice based on the aesthetic or
historicist parameters has been the topic of important debates on teaching and
practising the Fine Arts particularly during the age of Enlightenment. Our contribution
aims to reflect on the role that perspective has regained in the contemporary
artistic practice, not only as a graphic resource for representation but also as
a reflective element in itself. Although a hundred years ago for most of the avantgarde
movements of the twentieth century it could symbolise a reality to be fought
against, its use in contemporary art has transcended from pure methodology to its
inclusion among the new conceptual landscapes, intervening as a fundamental part
of artistic discourse. Therefore, we will study the work of contemporary artists
whose pieces highlight a review of the spatial perspective; so that the threedimensional
space becomes a protagonist element of the same representation. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades