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Problem is, Ingress used a device called a camera lucida invented in 1804 by William Hyde Wollaston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida … It is the precursor to photography and the basis of most of the viewfinder optics and many practical uses of the prism in optics. How do we know?
The left is Ingress study for a painting and notice how there's lots of redrawing and measurements all over it? The right though is also a study for a painting but notice how there's hardly any redrawing of lines? That's because with the camera lucida you just trace it.pic.twitter.com/nVURV1vM23
You can even go a step further and see it in other studies for the same painting. See how the lines are nearly perfect on the left? There's grid marks but there's not enough to get single strokes with no redrawing, like not even one line is moved. Also, here's the head.pic.twitter.com/3VXhU1MMUO
Even the classical realist's favorite painter, Jean-Léon Gérôme not only advocated the use of photos (in letters to students), but helped published a book of photos and wrote about how photography took muse "out of her well". Here's a photo of Gérôme.pic.twitter.com/2A5VCmHlBd
It's absurd that an artist back then--who gets paid based on how accurate the art is--would avoid using a device that helped so much. In fact, you can go back centuries and find examples of devices being used. See how the heads are all weirdly different sizes?pic.twitter.com/o8rjErYErn
That's Caravaggio, and there's a lot of evidence that he used projection with convex mirrors to do his paintings. The heads being the wrong size is most likely because he would project each person onto the canvas at different sittings, and it wouldn't be easy to adjust the size.pic.twitter.com/09AczRIEZ5
After Caravaggio left one of his apartments in Rome his landlord filed a lawsuit against him complaining that he had...for some weird reason...cut a huge hole in his ceiling. That's so he can have light directed at the right angle to work for projection off a convex mirror.
Now, keep in mind that even using a convex mirror, or camera Lucida, these painters were awesome and a lot of tricks were lost when they died, but the *narrative* of the Classical Realist is that Caravaggio sat there, with these four people sitting still for 200 hours.pic.twitter.com/v2bhcBmIUT
You think I'm exaggerating, but I've seen teachers spend 60-100 hours on just a pencil drawing of a small statue. Now we know there's no way Caravaggio could logistically pose 4 people like this for that long. The cost alone would simply be too staggering.
Fast forward to 2016, and I'm in this class run by one of these Anti-Photography Nazis. She would rant and prattle on for hours endlessly talking about how anyone who uses photos is a terrible artist. She would constantly talk about "the old Masters" never using devices.
One month she decides to throw a huge student show, and each student starts working hard on finishing a painting for the show. Remember that her method took sometimes 60 hours for a simple still life. If you have a job or live far away you can't finish a painting in 1 month.
This one poor woman worked on her still life constantly for the whole month, and then 1 week before the show she just had to finish a few things. So she took a couple photos, and took the painting home, then brought it back the next day finished. Nazi Realist became suspicious.
"How did you finish this? Did you come in last night?" Squinting at her like this woman had murdered someone in a tiny British village. "No, I uh..." she realizes she's screwed, "took a photo of it and.." Nazi Realist loses it,"There is no WAY I am allowing this in my show!"
Right then and there she throws this woman's art out of one of her most important shows, because this woman used a photo for just 1% of the working time on the painting. Nazi Realist was LIVID that anyone would dare not maintain the purity of the old masters and DARE use Photos.
This is not the only example. I went to a conference where *every* presenter ranted for 50% of their talks about how terrible photos were. They all wanted to bring back "the Salon", which is actually the definition of an authoritarian state backed art show.
Every one of these painters though couldn't tell you when Cadmium or the tin tube was invented. Hint: It's after camera lucida *and* after photography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goffe_Rand … They were very selective in their "without devices" it seems.
There were even some who had no idea that Rembrandt used a massive studio manufacturing operation to produce most of his paintings. They just thought dude sat there and painted all of The Night Watch by himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch …
These Nazi Realists believed that they were maintaining the purity of classic art like some kind of artistic Society for Creative Anachronism. The were really just perpetuating and maintaining a false history that produced a propaganda they could believe.
These artists get away with it because in American society we view artists as some kind of spiritual morally good people who are cool and *never* would be Nazis like...Hitler...who was totally an artist. Like, how could an artist *possibly* want to destroy a student?!?!?!
But in this tiny chunk of the art world, there's a group of artists who totally believe in this purity of art that thinks the "Old Masters" never used any devices and painted "naturally" (while _they_ use pigments ground into alkali refined linseed oils and put in tin tubes).
Next thread on artists and culture I'll talk about how artists seem to get away with some of the most insane behaviors compared to the rest of the world. Like, obviously Nazi porcelain guy:https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/charles-krafft-is-a-white-nationalist-who-believes-the-holocaust-is-a-deliberately-exaggerated-myth/Content?oid=15995245 …
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