Lesson 2 - Lecture

Again for this video, just like the first lecture video, this was an introduction to the videos for this week and what was expected to be in each one. For the videos this week three topics had to be kept in mind: Topic 1 The Lens: The First Camera; Topic 2 Light: Adding Drama; and Topic 3 Hyper-reality: Theater on Canvas. These three topics are useful when looking at the videos of Hockney, Carvaggio, and Rembrandt.

What I liked about this film and how it was different from the others was the certain scenes in which Professor Peck would record the setting while recording the camera that was recording everything through the use of a mirror. I liked this because the camera was recording a certain perspective/setting while recording itself record that perspective it gave us, through the use of a mirror. "Mirrors allowed painters of the Renaissance and thereafter to document reality. Through the lens of the camera you gain the reality of what is being recorded and through the reflection of the mirror you gain the reality of the camera.

Something that was said in the video that I found to be interesting was how the camera has influenced the painter. in the 1600s, the camera used was pretty much a dark room with a hole or sometimes a lens. In the 1850s, the camera was still just a dark room but the difference was that chemistry was involved. This was around the time of Impressionism, so painters had a completely different job at hand, and that was they did have to render themselves to reality because they now how tools that could do it for them and a better job of it as well.





This was how painters were able to produce paintings from picture form through light and the reflection of a mirror.