Immersion

26Nov08

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Last week we looked at what Grau calls “illusion spaces” – fresco rooms, panoramas and 360 degree images that attempt to “immerse” the viewer – where the eye is addressed with a “totality of images”.

Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film.

Publisher comments

I asked you to think about:

1. The techniques artists of antiquity (and into the Rennaissance) employed to create illusion spaces.
2. Whether these images have the same impact on modern audiences as they had on contemporary audiences. If so why/how? If not why?

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