Over the centuries artists have used lens (in the form of Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida, Cameras, etc) to provide some help when sketching out their work, or deciding on a composition.
No artist has ever become great by using lens. But many have saved themselves some valuable work time.
Below is a 'visual wander' (culled from the internet) through the many and various inventions used to aid painters.
You may recognise some of these, or, indeed, you may have used some!
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Who are these upright chaps, and what could they be observing?
(The answer will be in the next posting.)
And here's the answer from the last posting -
'Femme Cousant (Young Woman Sewing in the Garden'
by Mary Cassatt, 1880-82, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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Vincent Van Gogh
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