PERSPECTIVE DRAWINGS

Perspective – the illusion that an image has depth and 3-dimensional space (volume)

What do these paintings have in common?

The School of Athens

The Last Supper

TRICKS/TECHNIQUES

OVERLAPPING (ORDER)

RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES

VERTICAL PLACEMENT

ATMOSPHERIC

LIGHT

LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

VERTICAL PLACEMENT & OVERLAPPING

INTERPRETED AS 3 RECTANGLES

RELATIVE SIZE

David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1971

astronauts got disoriented on the moon because of . . .

the lack of atmospheric perspective.

TRICKS/TECHNIQUES

OVERLAPPING (ORDER)

RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES

VERTICAL PLACEMENT

ATMOSPHERIC

LIGHT

LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

One point; central

Vanishing point

Can you find the vanishing point?

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto

c. 1758-63 Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 72 1/2 in

Can you find the vanishing point?

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto

c. 1758-63 Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 72 1/2 in

The Delivery of the Keys1 point perspective

Place de l’Europe on a Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte

2 point perspective

Vanishing points at horizon

picture frame

Ascending and DescendingBy M.C. Escher

3 point perspective

After 600 years of perspectivist tricks, a

return to the flat surface in the 20th Century . . .

Frank Stella, Wolfeboro II,

1966

Frank Stella, Wolfeboro II,

1966

a hint of perspective . . .

Gustav KlimtPortrait of Adele

Bloch-Bauer I1907

138 x 138 cm

Art 7: Monster Under the Bed : 1 point perspectiveExamples of Bedroom

Art 8: Chiaroscuro Hallway Design : 1 point perspectiveExamples of chiaroscuro

Art 9: Surrealist Cityscape :2 point perspectiveSurrealism power pointExamples of surrealist cityscape