1.  Quietly get out your notes and something to write with.  Answer this question:  What do you think perspective is?

2. Renaissance and Surrealism

6.  PERSPECTIVE - Method of creating the illusion of three-dimensional space.

7.  HORIZON LINE – Where the sky meets the earth.  Always at eye level  Can only be one horizon line Horizon Line

8.  VANISHING POINT– An imaginary point on the horizon line where objects appear to “vanish”. Vanishing Point

10.  The area of your drawing surface  Your vanishing points can go off of your picture plane.

11.  For years, artists tried to find ways to show depth and space.  How did this Japanese painter try to show depth?

12.  The Byzantine and Middle Age periods used overlapping to show depth and space.

13.  As we enter the Renaissance, the emphasis moved toward creating a sense of depth. Objects were made to look three-dimensional through the use of shading. But there was still no way of realistically making it appear that things went back in space. Jan Van Eyck

14. Robert Campin Master of Flemalle What’s wrong with this painting?

15. Masaccio The Holy Trinity 1427

16. Leonardo Da Vinci The Last Supper 1495-1498

18. Raphael The School of Athens 1509-1510

22.  Ways artists create depth Overlapping – things that are closer are placed partly in front of things that are farther back. Size – things are smaller as they go back. Location – things are higher on the picture plane as they go back. One point perspective – lines that go back in space go to one point in the drawing.

42. Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory 1931

44. Salvador Dali Apparition of a Face and Fruitdish 1938

45. Salvador Dali Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937

46. M.C. Escher Relativity