Windows

Benjamin Shiff
Windows - Jerusalem

July 1990

March 4, 2012

Chagall
Window in the country - 1915

For centuries, the window has been found among the most favored artistic motifs. The picture of a "room with a view" in which the window marks the threshold between exterior and interior has long fostered reflections on the medium of painting itself. The observation that a painting resembles a view through an open window dates all the way back to 1435, when it entered a treatise on painting written by the Renaissance scholar Leon Battista Alberti. He coined a metaphor which has for centuries shaped our understanding of the picture which is organized according to the rules of central perspective and which – like a window – reveals to us a delimited segment of the world.  http://www.artdaily.org

August 1996

Joseph Sudek
1930

May 18, 2013