perspective

PERSPECTIVEDrawing things the way they

appear to the eye to create an illusion of depth

Ways to Show Perspective

Overlapping:Putting one object on top of another

Overlapping

Ways to Show Perspective

Linear Perspective

Linear Perspective

The use of vanishing points and the horizon line to show

depth

One Point Perspective

Use one vanishing point for the entire drawing

1 Point PerspectiveExterior or Transparent

Hobemma

Vanishing Point

Orthogonals - Lines that recede back to the vanishing point

Giovanni Battista PiranesiFantasy

on a Magnificent Triumphal

Arch

1 Point PerspectiveInterior

Rafael School of Athens

Vermeer

Vermeer

Vermeer

Interior 1 Point Perspective

Botticelli The Annunciation

Carvaggio

2 Point PerspectiveThe use of 2

vanishing points in the artwork

2 Point Perspective

Ways to Show Perspective

Color

Van Gogh

Manet

Ways to Show Perspective

Aerial focus

Aerial Focus

Colors, lines, and details are darker up close and become lighter with

less detail in the distance

Claude LorrainLandscape with Ruins, Pastoral Figures, and Trees1643/1655

Ways to Show Perspective

Size & Placement

Size—Objects get smaller as they go back in space

Placement—Objects are placed closer to the horizon

to create an illusion distance

Pieter Brueghel

Peasant Dance, 1567

Ways to Show Perspective

Shading/Value

Durer St. Gerome

Chiaroscuro

Durer Melancholy

Early Artists

PerspectiveWas Not

Perfected

Gothic

Gothic

Gothic

Fra Filippo Lippi

Fra Filippo Lippi

What spatial techniques are

being used?

Leonardo da Vinci

Vermeer

Van Gogh

Watchthe

Verticals

Inclined Vanishing Points

3 Point Perspective