Perspective

Perspective is a way of drawing, or rendering depth. It is based in math a the fact that parallel lines will never meet, but because of the laws governing distance. they appear to CONVERGE or meet. Below we will see 1 point and 2 point perspectives There is also 3 point perspective, multi point perspective and ariel perspective. Foreshortening is also a form of 1 point perspective. Above, in order are, converging parallel lines, followed by 1 point perspective and then 2 point perspective.

The Sistine Chapel.

first, what do you see? what do you think these men saw? What do you think the painting is saying?

Simple 1 point perspective drawing by Wayne Thiebaud. This is what Irefer to as freehand perspective as opposed to mechanical perspective where a ruler is used to plot the distance.

Fore shortened image of the Dead Christ by Mantegna and 1 point these books are drawn in both 1 point and 2 point. 1 point is always a flat frontal image as the spine of the book. 2 point always works from an angle where both sides are set from the foremost extended corner or line as in the bottom book.

Words

Sandro Bottecelli, the Birth of Venus. the shell, the shell, the shell and the illusion of depth the first picture is a perspective machine. It worked off of light, a grid located in a frame and plotting the image from a shadow. the second picture is a simple 1 point perspective where the point is Christ's head or right above his head. in these cases perspective becomes symbolic. Raphael's tour deforce of 1 point perspective and portraiture. The School of Athens. there are many great people located within this painting such as Leonardo and Michelangelo and Raphael himself. file:///Users/stevenmcpeters/Desktop/22perspective.JPG 2 point shallow space and 2 point panoramic space. 1 point to the left side 2 point 1 point above and below, Dali loved Perspective as it could distort images correctly, but making them seem strange or bent

De Chirico used 1 point but seemed to have no horizon to place these points upon. his pictures therefore seem distorted or wrapped to an extreme dream like state. He was a Surrealist after all, so this use of multiple points works for his paintings. Like Dali he used perspective as he saw fit.

Above and below, Rene Magritte





the perspective here is 1 point, but it is more a freehand distance Technique rather than parallel lines seeming to converge.