Transcript Handout: one-point perspective

Topic: Renaissance art
UNIT: RENAISSANCE
Essential Question:
How did new ways of
thinking influence a rebirth
of the arts in Italy?
Humanism
Ism means doctrine or
philosophy
Human means human
Humanism
The study of man’s ability to improve the
quality of life on Earth through studying
the classics.
Heaven is cool but old books about history,
literature, public speaking, and art
(humanities) is important stuff too!
It is ok to enjoy life on Earth.
Education and art mattered again!
Classical
-People look better
than real life.
-Bodies appear active
and lifelike, like
they could “come
alive.”
-Faces are calm and
do not show
emotion.
Medieval
-Images are very flat,
2D without much
depth.
-Usually religious
(Mary and Jesus)
-Important figures are
larger than others
-Bright colors
-Solid color
backgrounds
Renaissance
-Uses perspective
-Objects in “back”
smaller than those
in “front”
-Lifelike, 3D figures
-Lines meet in a single
point
-Full, detailed
backgrounds.
-Soft, shadowy colors
-Often non-religious
History of Perspective
Some artists conducted
careful observations of
nature and even anatomical
dissections to try to better
understand the world
around them.
But it wasn’t until the early
15th Century that a
Florentine architect and
engineer named Filippo
Brunelleschi developed a
mathematical theory of
perspective through a series
of optical experiments.
See how the lines that connect
the tops of the columns and the
lines in the floor point to a
single spot in the distant arch.
That spot is called a vanishing
point. It is at that spot that
everything disappears. The
bases of the columns on the left
side of the picture show us the
right side of the bases. The
opposite is true of the columns
on the right side.
PERSPECTIVE
The columns in the front are
much larger than those farther
away. We assume that in the
real architecture, they must
surely be the same height.
Perspective
• Perspective- a
method of
showing a three
dimensional
scene on a flat
surface.
perspective
perspective
Look at the pieces of art on the following slides
and try to determine during which period they
were made:
Classical
Medieval
OR
Renaissance
1. Madonna and Child
2. Bathing Venus
3. Primavera
4. Madonna and Child
5. Grave Stele of Hegeso
6. Pieta
How
many did
you get
correct?
Now lets give
perspective a try
Handout: one-point perspective
Handout: one-point perspective
Handout: one-point perspective
Handout: one-point perspective
Use the bottom portion of your
handout to create two more
boxes and then use one-point
perspective.
In your handout you should
have a total of 8 boxes drawn
Handout: one-point perspective
•Put your name, period and table number on your handout.
•Begin by completing the boxes above the horizon line.
•Continue to the boxes at the horizon line or eye level.
•The last portion of the exercise is to create two more boxes that are
below the horizon line (below eye level of the viewer).
http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2012/0
2/drawing-steps-for-one-pointperspective.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYBWAifEs
Discovery Edu clip “Rebirth in Perspective” and
“The Art of the Renaissance”