GLASFRYN SEMINARS ALLEN FISHER on Construction and the Frame A talk with slides, conducted via Zoom Saturday, May 23rd, 2020, 11am – 12.40 pm The event comprises two sessions, the first beginning at 11.00 am, followed by a 20 minute break and then a second session beginning at 12.00. A third session for questions will be added, at 1.00 pm. Construction and the Frame. We enjoy a variety of artistic successes without need to articulate how we make each of them lucid. Our practice of looking at pictures is embedded in our culture. It comprises a number of conventions and shared practices that have informed both the painter and the viewer. The facturing of paintings and the practice of looking at them follow procedures that involve guidelines, that include recognition of previous practices and particular expectations. Proportion and its cousin Construction have always been seminal in artistic practice. One aspect of this comes through artistic attention to vertical and horizontal edges, a feature that has always been important in formal architecture and became a necessary attention in painting in Roman times and in the period of illuminated manuscripts in...