Talking about art

Basic concepts: 1Perspective, or how we see the

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Basic intro from The Artist’s Toolkit

http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/watch_space_perspective.cfm

What is linear perspective?What is aerial perspective?What is the effect of using aerial and linear perspective?

Parallel lines, converging, vanishing

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impression, illusion, depth, distance, three-dimensions

Pale colour, grey-blue, distant objects

Examples of single point perspective

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/487819/Pissarro-Camille-1830-1903/Place-du-Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre-Fran%C3%A7ais-Paris:-Rain-1898-oil-?lang=de

Or look up landscapes by Canaletto

Another way of looking

Chinese scroll painting uses multiple perspectives. Find an example where you seem to be able to see buildings or structures from several points of view.

Modernism

By the end of the 19th century/ beginning of the 20th century, modern artists were no longer primarily concerned with creating illusions of real space. Here is an example of a canvas which we look at as a flat surface.http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/deux-ouvri%C3%A8res-dans-l-atelier-de-couture-two-seamstresses-in-the-workroom/sAEarRJo_gdFBA?hl=en

Hockney’s experiments with perspective

• Photomontage

• In his photomontage works, Hockney constructs an image from a large number of individual camera views.

Another perspective

• http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/study-of-perspective-berne/JgFdLvh4poUKfA?hl=en

• What is Ai Wei Wei saying here??

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At least two perspectives on perspective.

Compare at least two works of art (paintings) that use different perspective techniques. These may be one traditional and one modern OR one western and one from another culture.Describe the two artworks and compare the differences in how we look at them. (How are your eyes led around the picture?)