The Missing Leg
Posted: 21 Apr 2010, 07:01
Well this is a delight.
Pen, I love your illustrated extensions of the tables and the possibilities for the missing leg. My own perspective drawings look a lot like these old cards. Probably most people who don't work to see and understand perspective have the same problem in our drawings.
With these woodblock decks, however, I don't see the bizarre perspective as a problem. I think it's art.
mmf, I wrote something about the similarities between the Vieville and the cubists for the ATA newsletter. I love these strange impossibilities.
Mike, thanks for giving us so much to think about.
Just to clarify: I do not see a fourth leg in any of these pictures. I don't believe there is one "hidden" within the frame, and I don't know if there's one outside the frame.
What other cards have something "important" outside the frame?
Pen, I love your illustrated extensions of the tables and the possibilities for the missing leg. My own perspective drawings look a lot like these old cards. Probably most people who don't work to see and understand perspective have the same problem in our drawings.
With these woodblock decks, however, I don't see the bizarre perspective as a problem. I think it's art.
mmf, I wrote something about the similarities between the Vieville and the cubists for the ATA newsletter. I love these strange impossibilities.
Mike, thanks for giving us so much to think about.
Just to clarify: I do not see a fourth leg in any of these pictures. I don't believe there is one "hidden" within the frame, and I don't know if there's one outside the frame.
What other cards have something "important" outside the frame?