La Petite Colline
by David G Wilson
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20.000 x 24.000 inches
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Title
La Petite Colline
Artist
David G Wilson
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Since 1980, after having read a passage written by Leonardo da Vinci suggesting that,
"if the artist wishes to enhance his faculties for creative invention, he may look at even a stain on the wall and therein he might perceive whatever he wishes to see."
Since then, I have taken the liberty to scrutinize many old master paintings, looking for alternative realities therein. In many, I have discovered a plethora of hidden images which, I am certain, were not intentionally incorporated by the original artists. Hence, I have reconfigured those images to depict the alternative realities that my mind's eye perceives therein.
Looking at Vermeer's masterpiece, "The Girl with a Pearl earring", I distinctly perceive a barren little hill, upon the slope of which there are two cottages. In the middle ground, I perceived a woman dressed in a hooded red cloak walking toward one of the cottages. There is also an old copper water cistern, dating from the days of slavery, full of water. A road descends from the hill towards the house within whose threshold the viewer stands. The road suddenly deviates away from the house towards the right. One can see a lamp post that stands along the road and mimics her ear. It is truncated by the balustrade of the stairs and the golden orb that tops it. The doorway of the house reveals an arched entrance and marble steps upon which the aforementioned hooded figure has deposited a laden white bag. I have taken the liberty to show the flaking plaster on the inner wall, which makes allowance for the top of the headpiece that the girl is wearing and also the hanging tassel. In the distance, the cumulonimbus clouds billow skywards to complete my perception of the alterative realities that I see congruent with the three dimensional space that Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" occupies. My reason for depicting the perceptions of my mind's eye is to present the viewer with a visual experience of a hitherto unseen dimension within our three dimensional terrestrial space.
Since the development of linear and atmospheric perspective during the early renaissance, Western artists have been able to accurately depict three dimensional illusions on two dimensional surfaces (canvas and panel) However, few have attempted to depict a plausible alternative reality, congruent with an realistic three dimensional entity and thereby create a parallel universe.
Click below and see the comparison in order to visualize my perception of the "mnemonic images" that I found.
http://www.davidgwilson.com/Vermeer.html
� David G. Wilson
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May 24th, 2011
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