Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Canaletto And The Camera Obscura

Canaletto - Sketches
Camera Obscura
Canaletto is one of the most famous and precise Venetian landscape painters in history. Evidence suggests however, that even he needed help from a very controversial invention; the camera obscura. Many believe Canaletto needed this tool which allowed him to effectively trace a landscape image and evidence such as these drawings from his sketchbook show that his work is suspiciously precise and the individual unattached pages fit perfectly together when combined. The invention of the camera obscura to some critics has ruined techniques to produce landscape art. In my opinion it was inevitable that such an invention would be produced to help guide artists to their masterpiece's, just think about the kind of technology and constructions which have been made across the years.

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