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The “A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China” is impressive
documentary for how to look different kind of images. David Hockney presented
two scrolls from China and Canaletto. He said that none of the two kinds of images
coming from different geographies are not more advanced than the others.
underdeveloped, but David Hockney does not agree with this argument. Scrolls are
flexibility images because there are no edges, so you can move and control to look
different part of the scroll like a camera. If you move the edges, it will be like a
movie, but only the figures will not move. The first scroll was painted by more
conventional technic. The scroll tells the story of a journey taken by Emperor of
China in 1689 along the Grand Canal from Wuxi to Suzhou. In this scroll, we could
not see any deep, so there is not perspective. For this, lines are always parallel and
we could see every human figure are same height, but contrary to common
knowledge, human figures and attitude are different from each other and all of
them are special in these scrolls. There are a lot of details. Seeing everything on
Chinese people's daily life on the Grand Canal means that it was drawn from the
God view. Another thing about the view of God is that we can see in this picture
When another scroll is examined 75 years after the first scroll, we can observe
the change. In the second scroll, the human figures at the bottom of the scroll are
larger than the at the top of ones, so this shows us that there is depth and the
depth gives us reality. The Chineses were influenced by the West in these 75 years
and they used perspective technic on their scrolls. Therefore, presenter said that
Chinese people protect their culture and techniques, but at the same time they
used perspective and this situation brings the picture closer to reality. The other
is drawn in perspective and is visible to the human eye, so David Hockney likened
To sum up, David Hockney explained about perspective and ways of seeing
is really an important aspect that gives reality to painting, but that doesn't mean
that pictures without perspective are undeveloped. I was impressed by the scrolls
that took years to produce and made you feel like you were in a film while
examining.