Got to press F yo doubt on the concept that 15th century Japanese arista knew of the camera obscura. Even China at the time. Northern European pre-Rennaissance art is underappreciated in Northern Europe today compared to Southern European counterparts. On what are you basing the idea of Chinese artists understanding the techniques of their contemporaries in northern europe 8,0000 miles away?
I may not have been clear. The point I wanted to make was that lens-based optics weren't all that important to eastern cultures and that western cultures had started to use lens-based methods of visualizing perspective. The camera obscura was known to eastern cultures, it just wasn't seen as an aid to painted/drawn imagery the same way as it was in the west.
Got to press F yo doubt on the concept that 15th century Japanese arista knew of the camera obscura. Even China at the time. Northern European pre-Rennaissance art is underappreciated in Northern Europe today compared to Southern European counterparts.
On what are you basing the idea of Chinese artists understanding the techniques of their contemporaries in northern europe 8,0000 miles away?
I may not have been clear. The point I wanted to make was that lens-based optics weren't all that important to eastern cultures and that western cultures had started to use lens-based methods of visualizing perspective. The camera obscura was known to eastern cultures, it just wasn't seen as an aid to painted/drawn imagery the same way as it was in the west.