Thanks, Glenn. I missed the article and was glad you brought it to our
attention. Fo those who are interested in this area, the Hockney conference
mentioned in the article [see below] is free and the URL is
www.artandoptics.com.
> Over the last several years the painter David Hockney has
> set himself the task of doing just that. As an artist who
> knows a difficult technical problem when he sees one, he is
> convinced that few painters of note between about 1440 and
> 1860 - Van Eyck, Rubens, Caravaggio, Vermeer and Ingres,
> for starters - could have achieved their startling
> realistic effects by, as Mr. Hockney says, "simply
> eyeballing it." He has concluded that they must have (even
> if they wouldn't or neglected to admit it) relied on visual
> technology - lenses, mirrors, the camera obscura, or the
> camera lucida, an apparatus that reflects an object onto a
> surface so that it can be traced.
[snip]
> Whether he has sufficient evidence to back up his claims
> may be decided at a conference on Saturday and next Sunday
> at the Institute of the Humanities at New York University.
> A stellar lineup - the art historians Svetlana Alpers,
> Michael Fried, Richard Wolheim, Linda Nochlin and Rosalind
> Krauss; the critic Susan Sontag; the artists Chuck Close
> and Philip Pearlstein; and the former Getty Museum director
> John Walsh - will critique the theories, with Mr. Hockney
> and Mr. Falco there to defend them.
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