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David Hockney, in a BBC art-history documentary, discusses how (he believed) old master artists had used optics and projection to help them make their works. He takes particular aim at Bouguereau’s “La Vague”, as an example of a painting where the placement against the background has no relation to the circumstances of the painting of the foreground. He then makes the point by photoshopping the foreground against a series of increasingly ludicrous backgrounds. Fast forward to 28:55 to view this part of the video YouTube link
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