Secret knowledge
by David Hockney · first published 2001
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These actually took me most of 2013 and 2014 to get through: How To See Color And Paint It - http://www.amazon.com/How-Color-Paint-Arthur-Stern/dp/082302... Taught me how to paint what I see accurately. Secret Knowledge - http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Knowledge-New-Expanded-Rediscov... Taught me that painters have been using projection for hundreds of years so I'm allowed to use any technology I can get my hands on to…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014?” ↗I love David Hockney, but Secret Knowledge is an extraordinary work that I’d recommend to everyone regardless of their interest in art criticism. Most people frame the work as using science to comment about art criticism but I think that’s backwards.…
on “Hockney–Falco thesis” ↗…paintings. Pretty much after this and spending the last year teaching myself to paint I can safely say if it looks like a photo, it's from a photo. Another great book to check out is David Hockney's "Secret Knowledge", which covers how this is done in other ways, how projection devices were used by Kepler and others, how it could have been considered a guild secret among painters, and how when the photograph first…
on “Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs” ↗https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/david-hockney-a... Currently on in the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park until the 23rd August. I recently read his book Secret Knowledge on how many of the Old Masters may have used optics, and it's affected my thoughts every day I've looked at old paintings since then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Secret_Knowledge.html...
on “David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88” ↗The 2006 monograph by the british artist David Hockney (for anyone interested). Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters[1] [1] ISBN-10: 0142005126> http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Knowledge-Expanded-Edition-Redi...
on “Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses” ↗…the original kickstarter project here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neolucida/neolucida-a-portable-camera-lucida-for-the-21st-ce The camera lucida is a key component behind David Hockney's book Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters see also: Vermeer’s Secret Tool: Testing Whether The Artist Used Mirrors and Lenses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823528 Later on, once…
on “From Kickstart to commerical release: Camera Lucida” ↗