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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Renaissance methods in use

In light of the video "Martha Fiennes: Nativity", I have found that new technology which gives us a chance to create "moving" images is actually started with paintings in Renaissance. In this new creation, comptures are used to create random but appropriate figures in light of rules of perception. At the end, image gives the feeling Alberti's idea of "historia" by actual movement. So I will argue that understanding the value of Renaissance paintings that perfectly reflect movements and emotions is still point of origin for today's technological -computer based- creations.

If we think moving images are put together step by step, what it might end up is unlimited combinations. "It's like an enormous chess game and it's thinking 500 hundred moves ahead." So when it comes to Boticelli's old painting: "The Adoration of the Kings" we see people are moving purposely in harmony. As Alberti claims  historia is a narrative painting which includes a complex composition and a large number of figures, this painting is a good example. Not only that, we can see these figrues in such dramatic and emotive positions. Even if there is too many people in Boticelli's painting, they look fitting and related to each other thanks to use of architectural greatness. What Martha and others trying is smilar to these old paintings, they generate random environments to represent cycle of life with moving characters,  there's always an ongoing proccess of change and reaction that reflects an endless scene.  It's as successful as it's closer to Boticelli's, they say. To make it closer they used similar architecture and adjusted the image a little after computer's calculated creation.

Therefore, the value of Renaissance paintings come with their methods of interpretation to lead us create more detailed, perfect images. I think these methods are getting us closer to "nature", is actual "beauty" for Alberti. Technology brings us do it with infinite ways but we are still bound by Renaissance's methods of creation. That's why new art-technology mainly focus on using colors, depth and impressions to represent reality. We still need that understanding of Renaissance to yield new pieces of art.

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