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Art 101 Design & Appreciation Scale/Proportion/Perspective Assignment #6 Instructor: Deb Goodsell Voice mail: 488-4701 ext. 2008 Email:[email protected] Aerial, or Atmospheric perspective deals with how the appearance of an object is affected by looking at it through a layer of air. Moisture, dust and pollutants in the atmosphere act to filter the visual information. The changes follow the following general rules: Contrast is greatest for close objects. Distant objects have less contrast in them and less to their surroundings. Remember that value contrast is the strongest contrast when creating spatial illusions. Colors also change depth. All of the colors are clear on near objects. Bright colors are only seen on close objects. As objects get farther away the colors dull and eventually turn blue gray. Focus in an image also gives depth clues. Close objects are generally more sharply focused than distant objects. Details are much more apparent on near objects. Linear perspective makes more distant details too small to see. Linear Perspective is a system for drawing objects that use lines and vanishing points to dtermine how much an objects apparent size changes with space. It seems obvious that the apparent size of an object decreases the farther you get away form it. Linear perspective was first written about 400 years ago, during the Renaissance in Europe. One-point perspective is where a single point has been placed on the horizon line, and all the lines of objects at right angles to the plane angle off toward that point. Aerial/ Atmospheric Perspective Linear Perspective One-Point Perspective "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ansel Adams, 1936 Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point

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Page 1: Art 101 Design & Appreciationclasses.kvcc.edu/dgoodsell/Perspective/Assignment 6 Perspective lecture notes page 3.pdfduring the Renaissance in Europe. One-point perspective is where

Art 101Design &Appreciation

Scale/Proportion/PerspectiveAssignment #6

Instructor: Deb GoodsellVoice mail: 488-4701 ext. 2008Email:[email protected]

Aerial, or Atmospheric perspective deals with how the appearance of an object is affected by looking at it through a layer of air. Moisture, dust and pollutants in the atmosphere act to filter the visual information. The changes follow the following general rules: Contrast is greatest for close objects. Distant objects have lesscontrast in them and less to theirsurroundings. Remember that value contrast is the strongest contrast when creating spatial illusions.Colors also change depth. All of the colors are clear on near objects. Bright colors are only seen on close objects. As objects get farther away the colors dull and eventually turn blue gray.Focus in an image also gives depth clues. Close objects are generally more sharply focused than distant objects. Details are much more apparent on near objects. Linear perspective makes more distant details too small to see.

Linear Perspective is a system for drawing objects that use lines and vanishing points to dtermine how much an objects apparent size changes with space. It seems obvious that the apparent size of an object decreases the farther you get away form it. Linear perspective was first written about 400 years ago, during the Renaissance in Europe.One-point perspective is where a single point has been placed on the horizon line, and all the lines of objects at right angles to the plane angle off toward that point.

Aerial/Atmospheric Perspective

Linear Perspective

One-Point Perspective

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Linear Perspective is a complex spatial system based on a relatively simple visual phenomenon: as parallel lines recede, they appear to converge at the same place and to meet on an imaginary line called the horizon, or eye level. Parallel lines on parallel planes all converge at the same place on the horizon, we call the place where they converge the vanishing point.

One-point perspective is where a single point has been placed on the horizon line, and all the lines of objects at right angles to the plane angle off toward that point.

Ansel Adams, 1936 Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point