![]() As an artist, Gurney knew, you have to trick them back-or what you produce won’t look anything like what you thought you saw.Īlthough all good visual artists need to understand perception, Gurney has taken the study more seriously than most. The task was a visual one: translate the three dimensional scene that your eyes and your brain compile into a flat picture that makes you-and other viewers-re-experience something similar. “How am I going get all this down onto a 9 by 12 panel in a matter of hours?” he wondered, despite having confronted this conundrum countless times before. Signs poked out from the store and up from the street. Surveying the scene before him, he was immediately overwhelmed with literally millions of details. ![]() A few years ago, James Gurney, a celebrated artist and author, stood before his easel to paint a deli in Poughkeepsie. ![]()
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