Otto Rogers - Teaching Part 4
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You are building a piece of architecture. In fact I often said about paintings that they were squished architecture because in architecture you have volume and you have enclosed spaces that invite light to come inside. But when you come to a painting, it’s on a flat surface, but you have all the same architectonic, they call it - qualities that a building has. It has space, it has measurement, it has proportion, it has scale and it has relationships of one part to another. For example, if you relate this, to this, to this down here, your eye makes a very strong diagonal. And because your eyesight is going across in the diagonal, you suddenly become more aware of this space, and you get a kind of a rotation thing going. And then when you start reading these kind of blocks, that makes this rotation happen even more.

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