Monday, December 28

The vanishing point - the ironic parallels meeting

I believe everybody remembers the perspective lesson and the amazement of searching for the vanishing point where two parallels converge. The photo of the post below made me remember it and I searched for "vanishing point"and found many amazing sites different fields not only about how to draw. I found this photo by Steve Webel and a comment left by an art teacher who asked to use this photo to explain perspective at his class. Nice teacher! I also found an incredible site whose title is "The Vanishing Point", a site of Michael Cook, also a photographer in Canada. He has amazing photos and this is one of the paragraphs he wrote:
"Stepping outside our prearranged traffic patterns and established destinations, we find a city laced with liminality, with borderlands cutting across its heart and reaching into its sky. We find a thousand vanishing points, each unique, each alive, each pregnant with riches and wonders and time."
Even though perspective is no longer the only way painters uses to give the illusion of reality and some movements even do not like it the vanishing point, and what a great expression it is, still amazes many people. Funny because actually we know that parallels never meet each other or, if I remember correctly, they meet in the infinite according to I don't remember who .