Reviews: Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters

One of the perceptually alluring aspects of David Hockney's art work is his use of the photographic camera (see Hockney 1984). He has made composite photographs of a scene, where many slightly different features and viewpoints are juxtaposed, but they are perceived as a relatively unified whole. A homage to his approach is shown in figure 1, right. Hockney (figure 1, left) has used an artist's eye to amalgamate the Gestalt grouping principles. It could be said, perhaps a little unfairly, that Secret Knowledge does the reverse: it takes a relatively unified view of art history and fragments it into divergent parts.

• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Perception

• Publication date

  2002-11-01

• Fields of study

  Art

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  DOI 10.1068/p3111rvw
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