1. PERSPECTIVE

2. Perspective – the illusion that an image has depth and 3-dimensional space (volume)

3. TRICKS/TECHNIQUES OVERLAPPING (ORDER) RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES
VERTICAL PLACEMENT
ATMOSPHERIC
LIGHT
LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

4. VERTICAL PLACEMENT & OVERLAPPING
INTERPRETED AS 3 RECTANGLES

5. NOT

6. RELATIVE SIZE

7. SASSETTA The Meeting of St. Anthony and St. Paul about 1440 Wood
Italian painter, Sienese school (b. 1394, Siena, d. 1450, Siena)
National Gallery of Art, Washington

8. TRICKS/TECHNIQUES OVERLAPPING (ORDER) RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES
VERTICAL PLACEMENT
ATMOSPHERIC
LIGHT
LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

9. Atmospheric Imitation of atmospheric effects:
hues more bluish & more pale
outlines less precise
small details lost
color contrasts muted
sfumato (“vaporous”) gradual transition

10. David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1971

11. astronauts got disoriented on the moon because of . . .

12. the lack of atmospheric perspective.

13. TRICKS/TECHNIQUES OVERLAPPING (ORDER) RELATIVE (diminishing) SIZES
VERTICAL PLACEMENT
ATMOSPHERIC
LIGHT
LINEAR (ONE OR TWO POINT)

14. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
Vanishing point
One point; central

15. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 72 1/2 in

16. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), The Campo di Rialto c Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 72 1/2 in

17. Vanishing points at horizon
picture frame

18. After 600 years of perspectivist tricks, a return to the flat surface in the 20th Century . . .

20. Frank Stella, Wolfeboro II, 1966

21. Frank Stella, Wolfeboro II, 1966
a hint of perspective . . .

22. Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907 138 x 138 cm

23. The dawn of perspective

24. Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned, 1280-90
NO PERSPECTIVE
flat pictorial space similar to Ancient & Byzantine works
Note color oppositions and alternation in Angel wings
TEXTBOOK p. 185

25. GIOTTO Madonna in Glory c. 1311 Tempera on panel 128 x 90 1/2 in.
suggestions of PERSPECTIVE in a GOTHIC ERA work; PERSPECTIVE is a major development of the RENAISSANCE
(key words in BOLD)

26. . . . in music?
Yes!
Can you tell the difference between a loud sound far away and soft sound nearby?
Psycho-acoustic effects of near and far (reverb, TDOA, spectral roll-off, timbre, etc.)
- used in film music, electronic music, and some orchestral music, particularly MAHLER

27. In retrospect . . .
notice perspective, lack of perspective, and suggestions of perspective in 2-D work