Stetoscope

Do you feel insulted by this painting? Well, if the question seems a bit ridiculous today, it would not have been if you had lived in the 13th century in europe. You would have been shocked by this painting.

Why? For the very reason that this painting seems common today : it follows the rule of perspective. You have to imagine that before, Leon Battista Alberti, the characters were not reprensented at scale and adjusted to the perspective, their sized represented the intensity of their faith in god. Thus hollies were really big and always located in imaginary worlds with angels and strange creatures. Here, the scene takes place in Toscana, just where Alberti was from and the characters even Jesus representation respect the perspective rule… Is not it outrageous?

This example shows how we interpret the world through our own old background and not through new eyes. The challenge of new ideas is to succed in settling a new representation. That’s one of the edge line of this blog : how to create new representation to settle innovations? As you can my two weeks holidays in Tuscany did not changed my obsession. I am glad to be back and hope to see you soon swinging by there.