Sorin Dumitrescu

ARTWORK

painting

art history / icon / painting / perspective

1998

In contemplating the space of the icon and the way the forms within it (edifices, constructions, landscapes, etc.) are represented, one immediately notices that the borders of the architecture, the contour lines of the various objects or the trajectories of the landscape do not converge in an orderly fashion within the image, into a single point, as occurs in classical paintings; on the contrary, their orthogonals seem to be inverted, as if they were about to fly outside, onto an imaginary invisible horizon, situated somewhere in front of the icon. This spatial representation which seems to use inversely the well-known geometrical stereotype of linear perspectives is considered to be one of the specific characteristics of iconic art. (...) (S.D., excerpt from the text entitled The Threshold)

Perspective - International Media Art and Media History Exhibition