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subhopping

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Jan 27, 2005, 1:46:02 PM1/27/05

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I am drawing (no pun intended) a blank here...

There is/was someone(s) who painted with an exagerated longness that
when you looked at it head on, it made little sense. However, if you
stood at one end of the painting and looked sideways at it, it came
together and was properly porportioned.
Does anyone know that I am talking about or did I dream this?

Thanks

Paul Mesken

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:03:00 PM1/27/05

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On 27 Jan 2005 10:46:02 -0800, "subhopping" <subho...@gmail.com>
wrote:

No, you're not dreaming it. Holbein's "Ambassadors", for example, has
a skull in it that is seen right when looked at it from the painting's
top right.

Here's a link :

http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/Ambassadors/Ambassadors.jpg

There are probably more who painted stuff like this.

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Electric Nachos

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:03:26 PM1/27/05

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No, you weren't dreaming. I know what you're talking about but can't
remember the artist or the painting. Sorry.

I believe in fact this was done more than once - one painting even contained
a secret message in this manner.

Electric Nachos

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:07:30 PM1/27/05

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subhopping wrote in message
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Picasso copied this technique - but that's not the artist I'm looking for.
Still searching...

http://web.org.uk/picasso/secret_guernica.html

Electric Nachos

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:09:28 PM1/27/05

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Paul Mesken wrote in message ...

>On 27 Jan 2005 10:46:02 -0800, "subhopping" <subho...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I am drawing (no pun intended) a blank here...
>>
>>There is/was someone(s) who painted with an exagerated longness that
>>when you looked at it head on, it made little sense. However, if you
>>stood at one end of the painting and looked sideways at it, it came
>>together and was properly porportioned.
>>Does anyone know that I am talking about or did I dream this?
>
>No, you're not dreaming it. Holbein's "Ambassadors", for example, has
>a skull in it that is seen right when looked at it from the painting's
>top right.
>
>Here's a link :
>
>http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/Ambassadors/Ambassadors.j
pg
>
>There are probably more who painted stuff like this.

Yup - that's the one I was looking for. Thanks!

Electric Nachos

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:18:51 PM1/27/05

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subhopping wrote in message
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Hey, whaddya know, they call it, "Anamorphic Art."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Anamorphic+Art%22

Paul Mesken

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:18:16 PM1/27/05

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:09:28 -0800, "Electric Nachos"
<aint_...@chew.foo> wrote:

>Yup - that's the one I was looking for. Thanks!

I think it's a bit uncanny that we responded at the very same moment
and started of with more or less the same sentence :-)

Electric Nachos

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Jan 27, 2005, 2:42:39 PM1/27/05

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Paul Mesken wrote in message ...

>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:09:28 -0800, "Electric Nachos"
><aint_...@chew.foo> wrote:
>
>>Yup - that's the one I was looking for. Thanks!
>
>I think it's a bit uncanny that we responded at the very same moment
>and started of with more or less the same sentence :-)

Yes, well according to American tradition (in some very small motorcycle
riding gangs), we now have to punch each other and say, "You owe me."

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