Perspective in (mostly) Western Art

Gothic Giotto Meeting at the Golden gate ca. 1300

Late Gothic - Flanders (Belgium) The Master of Flemalle (Campin)? The Merode Altarpiece c

Early Renaissance in Italy Masaccio St. Peter Healing the Sick 1427

Jan van Eyck “Inventor” of oil paint The Wedding 1434

Piero della Francesca The Flagellation 1460

The High Renaissance in Italy Botticelli The Cestello Annunciation 1489

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper

Raphael The School of Athens 1509

Durer St. Jerome 1514 Journeyed to Bologna in 1506 to receive instruction in the art of “secret perspective.”

Durer The Teaching of Measurements c.1525

Baroque in Holland Vermeer Lady at a Virginal

Romanticism - Turner 1797 Transept of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire Professor in perspective at the Royal Academy in London from 1807 – 1828.

John Singer Sargent Venetian Canal 1913

John Singer Sargent A Street in Venice 1882

Japanese Prints, Ukiyo-e, influenced the French Impressionists - Kuninao 1845 Utilize the Chinese system for suggesting perspective which is different from Western art: lines stay parallel as they recede into the background – they do not converge. This technique created diagonal planes that was later employed by the French Impressionists. No shadows are used because they convey a temporal experience.

Hiroshige 1845 The word ukiyo-e means a picture of “the floating world”. Derived from Buddhist religious interpretation that described life on earth as unhappy, a stage to go through on the road to salvation. Portrays the pleasures that helped to relieve the restraints of urban Japanese life.

Utagawa Kunisada Ukiyo-e prints usually tell a story with scenes from life in the houses of prostitution or in the theater, posed as a tableau or scene. Details such as fabric and hair style had to reflect the current fashions of the time. Ukiyo-e information from: Yale- New Haven Teachers Institute - Visions of People: The Influences of Japanese Prints - Ukiyo-e, Upon Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century French Art by Patricia Flynn

Degas - The Glass of Absinthe 1876

Degas - Dancing Class

Van Gogh - Night Café 1888

La Chambre de Van Gogh a Arles 1889

Toulouse-Lautrec - At the Moulin Rouge 1892

Edward Hopper - Nighthawks 1942

Hopper - New York Movie

Hopper - Hotel Lobby 1943

Hopper - Chop Suey 1929

Thiebaud combines Eastern and Western perspective systems - San Francisco West Side Ridge 2002

Thiebaud - Intersection 1978 Winding River 2002

Bo Bartlett School of Charm, 2010

Bo Bartlett