{"id":4830,"date":"2009-04-01T01:17:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2009-04-01T01:17:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:17:37","slug":"false-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/01\/false-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"False perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Satire on False Perspective by William Hogarth (1753).<\/em><\/p>\n

Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece.
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More eye-deceiving art for All Fools’ Day. Everyone knows MC Escher<\/a>‘s pictures which continually played with the rules of perspective. Hogarth’s satire<\/a> is less well-known and may even be the first of its kind. I haven’t seen any examples earlier than this.<\/p>\n

A few contemporary equivalents follow, all of which can be found at Impossible World<\/a>, a site devoted to visual disjunction.<\/p>\n

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Piranesi in Budapest by Istv\u00e1n Orosz<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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De wachtkamer van de artistieke Architect by Jos de Mey.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dreams by Nikol.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Satire on False Perspective by William Hogarth (1753). Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable to such absurdities as are shewn in this Frontispiece. More eye-deceiving art for All Fools’ Day. Everyone knows MC Escher‘s pictures which continually played with the rules of perspective. Hogarth’s satire is less well-known and … Continue reading “False perspective”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,44,18],"tags":[308,309,216,310,139,307],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-istvan-orosz","tag-jos-de-mey","tag-mc-escher","tag-nikol","tag-piranesi","tag-william-hogarth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1fU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}