1 Point Perspective1 Point Perspective

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What is Perspective?What is Perspective?

Perspective is a way that artists can make Perspective is a way that artists can make a painting seem to have distance and a painting seem to have distance and depth. depth.

The next slide shows a painting that was The next slide shows a painting that was done on a flat surface, but perspective done on a flat surface, but perspective makes the picture look almost real.makes the picture look almost real.

Carlo Crivelli,Carlo Crivelli,The Annunciation with Saint EmidiusThe Annunciation with Saint Emidius

Lines of Perspective:Lines of Perspective:

When you look at a painting that has been When you look at a painting that has been done in perspective, it might seem as done in perspective, it might seem as though you are looking through a window. though you are looking through a window.

Artists make the things that are supposed Artists make the things that are supposed to be far away very small and close to to be far away very small and close to each other. each other.

Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy DayParis Street, Rainy Day

In this painting, the lines on the street and the buildings all seem to come together in one spot on the horizonhorizon. . The place where the lines meet is called the vanishing pointvanishing point..

Optical Illusions:Optical Illusions:

Perspective is an Perspective is an optical illusionoptical illusion a trick of a trick of the eye. At first glance, you might think the eye. At first glance, you might think that what is shown in a drawing or painting that what is shown in a drawing or painting is real. This is because your brain is used is real. This is because your brain is used to seeing things in to seeing things in three dimensionsthree dimensions. .

When you first When you first look at this picture, look at this picture, you might think you might think that it is just a that it is just a drawing of people drawing of people on the roof of a on the roof of a building. But building. But when you look when you look carefully, you see carefully, you see that the people are that the people are going around in a going around in a loop. loop.

Playing with Perspective:Playing with Perspective:

By the early 20By the early 20thth century, artists wanted to century, artists wanted to do something new. They tried do something new. They tried experiments with perspective. This painter experiments with perspective. This painter tried to show a mandolin from many tried to show a mandolin from many different angles in the same painting. This different angles in the same painting. This style of painting is called Cubism.style of painting is called Cubism.

Georges BraqueThe Mandolin,

This artist This artist experimented with experimented with perspective using perspective using abstractabstract shapes and shapes and patterns. In this patterns. In this picture, a wedge-picture, a wedge-shaped net seems as shaped net seems as though it is coming though it is coming out of the picture out of the picture toward you.toward you.

El Lissitzky, Proun 99

Grade 5 vocabulary:Grade 5 vocabulary:

DepthDepth—feeling of space and distance in a —feeling of space and distance in a picturepicture

HorizonHorizon—imaginary place where the earth —imaginary place where the earth and sky seem to meetand sky seem to meet

Optical IllusionOptical Illusion—image that appears —image that appears different than it actually isdifferent than it actually isThree dimensionsThree dimensions—to seem to be tall, —to seem to be tall, wide, and to take up spacewide, and to take up spaceVanishing PointVanishing Point—imaginary spot in a —imaginary spot in a picture at which all the lines in a picture at which all the lines in a painting painting seem to come togetherseem to come together

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