The complete article published on Substack
“Generally speaking, a painting is nothing else but a projective mapping of one set of points into another, a mapping that preserves at least some aspects of its qualitative differentiation — light, shadow, colour.
The establishment of general methods and detailed ways of such transfer has always been the aim of painting, striving for the greatest possible order and consistency in all its actions.”
— Mieczysław Porębski, Ikonosfera (Iconosphere), p. 173
Mieczysław Porębski was a Polish art critic, art historian, and theorist whose work was deeply concerned with the structure, meaning, and language of images.
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