Difference between revisions of "Sept 2"
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* Versimilitude | * Versimilitude | ||
| + | ** [https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2017/crevalcore-still-life-with-grapes-and-bird Zeuxis & Parrhasius] | ||
| + | ** Renaissance artists and patrons were obsessed with Pliny's Natural History, written in the first century A.D., which contained detailed descriptions of great works of art from antiquity. The fact that most of those works no longer existed added allure to their imagined perfection. Among the most intriguing was a picture of grapes by the famous Zeuxis (fifth century B.C.) that was "so successfully represented that birds flew up to it." Executed as part of a competition, Zeuxis found himself beaten by his archrival Parrhasius, who painted a curtain so realistically that Zeuxis reached out to pull it back. Zeuxis had fooled the birds, but Parrhasius had fooled an artist at his own game! | ||
* Method/Kayfabe | * Method/Kayfabe | ||
** [https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15930731-the-real-actor Ideas Podcast: The Real Actor, 2022] | ** [https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/15930731-the-real-actor Ideas Podcast: The Real Actor, 2022] | ||
Revision as of 19:05, 2 September 2022
| Sept 2 Schedule for Uncreative Designing | |
|---|---|
| 3:00 | Introductions & Syllabus |
| 3:30 | What is Creativity? |
| 4:00 | Show & Tell / Lexicon |
| 5:30 | Break |
| 5:45 | File:On Exactitude in Science.pdf |
Themes:
- Versimilitude
- Zeuxis & Parrhasius
- Renaissance artists and patrons were obsessed with Pliny's Natural History, written in the first century A.D., which contained detailed descriptions of great works of art from antiquity. The fact that most of those works no longer existed added allure to their imagined perfection. Among the most intriguing was a picture of grapes by the famous Zeuxis (fifth century B.C.) that was "so successfully represented that birds flew up to it." Executed as part of a competition, Zeuxis found himself beaten by his archrival Parrhasius, who painted a curtain so realistically that Zeuxis reached out to pull it back. Zeuxis had fooled the birds, but Parrhasius had fooled an artist at his own game!
- Method/Kayfabe
- Bricolage
