SPACE PERSPECTIVE Space is all around you Real

SPACE= PERSPECTIVE Space is all around you. Real space is 3 dimensional. When you can swim in a pool, stand on a bridge, or ride through a tunnel, you are located or moving in space. The words above, behind, into, and through indicate position in space. Giorgio de Chirco , The Mystery and Meloncholy of a Street, 1914

Techniques for OPTICAL PERSPECTIVE • • Value ( shading), Position detail Overlapping Color Detail Size Variation Linear Perspective Georges Seurat La Pont de Courbevoie 1987

Value- Generally, things closer to you appear darker than the same things far away

VALUE in Optical Perspective Notice the values of the trees get lighter the further away they are in the distance…. . Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing

VALUE in Optical Perspective Giorgione, The Adoration of the Shepards

COLOR In Optical Perspective Use of color creates a sense of depth. A shape of bold color on a more neutralcolored background appears to move forward. Warmer colors appear closer than cooler colors Hans Hoffman, The Gate

COLOR in Optical Perspective Blue sky is further

OVERLAPPING In Optical Perspective Overlapping→→

DETAIL By adding more detail to some objects in your drawings, they can look closer than other objects

DETAIL & OVERLAPPING EDGAR DEGAS Three Dancers in the Wings

Position in Optical Perspective Depth can also be shown by where objects are placed on a drawing. Objects drawn toward the bottom appear closer to the viewer Edouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863

Position in Optical Perspective Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire

SIZE in Optical Perspective By changing the size of objects in your drawings, you can add depth to your work. Remember, adding depth makes your drawings more interesting What else is interesting about the artist’s perspective? Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon, 1888

SIZE in Optical Perspective Charles Demuth The Figure Five in Gold

SIZE AND POSITION