Perspective: Making the rules and breaking them

So, I'm going to have a little look into the use of 'perspective' in art - at those  who made  the rules, and those that break them... (  just cant seem to label works at the mo, blogger  website being a bit too stupid...naughty technology)

'Relativity'  Escher

M C Escher-  Many of his images contain several vanishing points and an exaggerarted three point perspective that creates impossible spaces

Picasso- Wanted the viewer to look at the objects in his work from several points of view. Broke all the rules of the 'artistically correct' With Braque, and the influence of Cezanne's later work, went on to invent 'Cubsim'

Cubism - Paintings that depict real people, places or objects, but not from a fixed viewpoint. Instead it shows many parts of the subject at one time, viewed from different angles, and reconstructed into a composition . 

David Hockney- Joiner photographs, interested in altering the way we make pictures. Created photo-collages,  from a series of photograph taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, similar results as cubism.

Donatello- helped develop new tool of 'linear ' perspective, 'The Feast of Herod'  the earliest surviving example of scientific perspective, uses   a “vanishing point”, an imaginary single point on the page in which all the parallel lines meet.
http://www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/CWTyler/Art Investigations/PerspectiveHistory/Perspective.BriefHistory.
  

Giotto- One of the first uses of perspective was in Giotto’s ‘Jesus Before the Caïf’. Depth conveyed by either a 'non-geometric construction principle or a different form of construction that did not involve the use of vanishing points.' 

Mantegna - Created illusion of 3D image on flat 2D ceiling, 'Ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi' 1465-74 example of di sotto in su (seen from below)

Byzantine Art - perspective drawing where the further away the objects are, the larger they are drawn, vanishing point  near the viewer, it possibly shows God looking upon the viewer, for example, rather than the viewer looking upon God. 'As  God is  omnipresent his view converges from everywhere, rather than scanning out from a point.'

Partick Hughes -  Fascinated by the illusion of perspective 
 

'25 trees and other pictures by David Hockney'

When I was young and not quite grown, I  looked to Hockney for inspiration for my A-level work. In particulcar, at his landscapes which were current at the time and captured rich tapestries of texture and colour. I produced a painting, incorporating some of Hockneys techniques ( or, I should say attempting to) of my home town , Stockport. It's still knocking about even today , in a a shed, on the back of a sheet of mdf. 

That was a long time ago- and my interest in Hockney, much like my Stockport painting , has faded and grown old. 

However , my Mum sent me a link to this-
http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/whats_on.php and I felt a flicker of curiosity spark in my belly....A brave new direction for my once upon a time hero- a living legend  still working, still pushing the boundries of painting and bold enough to showcase his latest work first of all here in the North! Yes, the new show incorporates three  27 foot pictures of landcapes, and if that isnt enough to get me salivating , then the fact that we get to witness them even before London should just about do it!

'25 Trees and other pictures by David Hockney' opens At Salts Mill, West Yorkshire on September 14, then moves to the Royal Academy on January 29, 2012 until April.

The Road to York through Sledmere (1997)