The "Innocent Eye" and Recent Changes in Art Education
1985; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3332302
ISSN1543-7809
Autores Tópico(s)Art Education and Development
Resumonotion of an innocent eye, of a naive direct view of visual reality, has a long history in art education. The whole technical power of painting, writes Ruskin, depends on our recovery of what might be called the innocence of the eye; that is to say, of a sort of childish perception of these flat stains of colour, merely as such, without consciousness of what they signify-as a blind man would see them if suddenly gifted with sight.'I It would not be difficult to find fault with Ruskin's statement: we know
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