4. Technique
He revealed the substantiality of the void between objects and he challenged the integrity and identity of forms which now coincides with a new physics: the science of fields and thermodynamics. The new criterion of the observer that was triggered by Turner is perhaps illustrated by his celebrated relationship to the sun. Besides, “new notions of heat, time, death, and entropy, so the sun presupposed by the camera obscura (that is, a sun that could only be indirectly re-presented to a human eye) was transformed by the position of the sun are cast off.” (Crary 1990, p. 135)
Turner’s way of seeing might be visionary with the retinal processes of vision. This explains his remoteness from the paradigm of the camera obscura. That is to say, it is another way of observing the landscape through a camera obscura. Briefly, The ways of interpreting paintings are usually divided into two methods; ‘Studium’ and ‘Punctum’. One of the duties in the platform could be to help individuals to interpret the image as ‘Punctum’
Consequently, the image from the platform might be not an image from perceptual experience which is accumulated in memory but a visionary image or physiological perception from the observer. That is to say, the image seems like a fusion of eye and perception. Fig. 16 personal perception about light
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