Friday, March 2, 2007

At this point, after a semester’s talk of “money shots” and GSI perspective presentations, it seems obvious that perspective drawings focus upon the subjective viewer while axonometric representations tend to relate a more object-oriented reality. And yet, after reading the Schneider piece and reflecting, it seems that both of these previously accepted notions can be reinterpreted. Leonardo Da Vinci himself found perspective drawings overly objective and insufficiently experiential. Indeed, the measured nature of the perspective defies an inherently impressionistic nature, although the frame is taken from the position of an onlooker, someone experiencing the space. Alternately, due to the many many choices associated with axonometric composition, such drawings may not be entirely objective, given the possibilities in types of axonometric drawings (which favor one or another aspect of a building) as well as some vantage point consideration. While the two drawing types are clearly distinct and communicate in very different ways, their boundaries are not so easily compartmentalized.

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