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innocent eye: a standalone construct

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Art history

the ideal of seeing colour and form as flat patches, as a blind person suddenly given sight would, without knowledge of objects.

In art history, innocent eye refers to the ideal of seeing colour and form as flat patches, as a blind person suddenly given sight would, without knowledge of objects. This meaning comes from Ruskin (1858) in The elements of drawing.[1]

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Ruskin, J. (1858). The elements of drawing. Wiley & Halsted. Open Library record

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