“To reproduce the three-dimensional two-dimensionally, however, is an excercise in abstraction. As with all illusions, two-dmensional art is a critique on the limits of perception.”
GeoffreyBent- “Let there be Giotto”
This quote is taken from an essay by Bent about Giotto published in Boulevard-Vol.23. Giotto is a 13th Century Itlaian painter who is credited with breaking many of the traditions of art in that time and forming a movement in painting that gets away from the flat, two-dimensional imagery and aspires to create the illusion of three-dmensions. I think that this quote is a reminder of how painting is still painting. we are reinterpreting and transferring what we see onto a two-dimensional plane. Therefore, we are always at the mercy of our own perceptions, no matter our intentions.
Image:
The Kiss of Judas
Giotto (1267-1337)
Fresco, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua