Understanding Pictorial Evolution

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By holding reality at their command and molding it into their art

To help understand the evolution of pictorial art

<p>The author suggests that perspective has solved the problem of form but not of movement, leading realism to continue the search for dramatic expression of the moment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The history of the plastic arts is primarily a story of resemblance or realism, rather than just aesthetics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author implies that photography and cinema provide a natural explanation for the crisis that overtook modern painting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The crisis of realism in art is the confusion between true realism, which aims to express the world concretely and in its essence, and pseudorealism, which aims to deceive the eye or mind with illusory appearances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text describes the fascinating objectivity of Chardin as being in no sense that of the photographer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The original sin of Western painting is identified as perspective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It allowed artists to create the illusion of three-dimensional space within their paintings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It elevated our preoccupation with time to the level of rational thinking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The satisfaction of the appetite for illusion served to increase it until it consumed the plastic arts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The creation of an ideal world in the likeness of the real, with its own purpose.</p> Signup and view all the answers