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Mike, how exactly was I ambushed? I look at this thread as an opportunity to share my feelings about something I consider to be of tantamount importance.
Alan I would consider any guidance or philosophy that came from Cezanne to be 180 degrees off course. When I was in art school I had Cezanne literally shoved down my throat. The work I do now is as much a negative response to Cezanne as anything else. The idea that good artists use one eye is in my opinion misguided at best and more like patently wrong. Using one eye gives us a flattened view of the world with hard edges. This is how modern art is made. Flat work on a flat surface.
My approach to painting relies on the idea that in order to create the illusion of spacial reality one needs to understand and replicate the way the eye works and relays it to the brain. By using binocular vision we perceive variations in edges, since each eye views the same edge at a different angle. Edge variation is a must in recreating reality.
The most important aspect of using our own visual acuity is utilizing it's increased sensitivity to value and color variations. The camera cannot even come close in this respect.
The other important difference is being able to perceive the three dimensional solidity of the form. This is the essence of real drawing, as opposed to copying. This is easily observed in the works of those we call old masters. Photography compresses the form and we are left with an image that has been arrived at by virtue of a mechanical and not an intellectual process. Photographs are most often distorted in one way or another., as a result.
Mike you'd have to do your experiment as a controlled study, using a set of twins, allowing one to work from life and condemning the other to work from photos.
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