Lew☦️ on Nostr: "Perspective does not accord with man’s nature—proof of this is the complex and ...

"Perspective does not accord with man’s nature—proof of this is the complex and prolonged labor that was required to hammer out the notion of perspective. The period between the 15th and 18th centuries witnessed a forced retraining of human psychophysiology. Perspective is alien to man because it is a conspiracy against natural perception: it demands that one see not that which exists but that which is desirable to see. Distortions of perspective are connected with the high qualities of icons. Historians of culture put a greater value on a cultural phenomenon if it approximates phenomena of the second half of the 19th century. Perspective is an expression in painting of the Kantian world-understanding. A picture of the world with perspective is not a fact of perception but a requirement in the name of certain principles"

-Pavel Florensky.