1 Point Perspective

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1 Point Perspective
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The 5 Basic Rules of Space Creating Depth

• 1.) Overlapping
• 2.) Position
• Objects rise on the picture plane
• 3.) Size
• Objects get smaller as they rise on the picture
  plane
• 4.) Converging lines (Linear Perspective)
• 5.) Foreshortening
• Converging lines meet at the vanishing point on
  the horizon line
• 6.) Aerial Perspective
• Atmospheric effects on color, value and detail

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What is Perspective?

• Perspective is a way that artists can make a
  painting seem to have distance and depth.
• The next slide shows a painting that was done on
  a flat surface, but perspective makes the picture
  look almost real.

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Carlo Crivelli,The Annunciation with Saint
Emidius
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Lines of Perspective

• When you look at a painting that has been done in
  perspective, it might seem as though you are
  looking through a window.
• Artists make the things that are supposed to be
  far away very small and close to each other.

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Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day

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

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Optical Illusions

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

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

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Playing with Perspective

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

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

El Lissitzky, Proun 99
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Vocabulary

• Depthfeeling of space and distance in a picture
• Horizonimaginary place where the earth and sky
  seem to meet
• Optical Illusionimage that appears different
  than it actually is
• Three dimensionsto seem to be tall, wide, and
  to take up space
• Vanishing Pointimaginary spot in a picture at
  which all the lines in a painting seem to come
  together