1. DRAWING representationabstraction depiction of a subject that is recognizable; visually connected to the real world exaggeration or simplification to varying degrees of formal properties

2. PERSPECTIVE a view or outlook; a way of seeing the ability to perceive interrelationships

3. White Cross Gisela Insuaste 2004

4. WAYS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPACE three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface OVERLAPPING objects that are closer to the viewer block objects that are farther away

5. Yellow Painting Gisela Insuaste 2003

6. WAYS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPACE three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface OVERLAPPING PLACEMENT objects that are closer to the viewer are lower on the picture plane

7. Drawing 1 Gisela Insuaste 2002

8. Pare Gisela Insuaste 2002

9. WAYS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPACE three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface OVERLAPPING PLACEMENT SCALE objects of the same real size that are closer to the viewer are bigger on the picture plane than objects farther away

10. Storage Piers Elise Kaufman 2007

11. WAYS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPACE three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface OVERLAPPING PLACEMENT SCALE DETAIL objects that are closer to the viewer have more detail on the picture plane

12. Red Hook Harbor Elise Kaufman 2009

13. Park Robert Connell 2009

14. WAYS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPACE three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface OVERLAPPING PLACEMENT SCALE DETAIL COLOR & VALUE objects that are closer to the viewer show more contrast and appear warmer in color on the picture plane VALUE – how light or dark something is CONTRAST – the change in value COLOR – warm colors: red, orange, yellow; cool colors: green, blue, violet

15. Drawing 2 Gisela Insuaste 2002

16. WAYS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION OF SPACE three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface OVERLAPPING PLACEMENT SCALE DETAIL COLOR & VALUE LINEAR PERSPECTIVE a set of consistent geometric rules, primarily used in Western culture, that render objects as they appear to the human eye determined in the early 1400’s by Filippo Brunelleschi & Leon Batista Alberti, both architects Highly effective for direct visual representation

17. Viejo San Juan Gisela Insuaste 2004

18. Ladder for Booker T. Washington Martin Puryear 1996

19. Art 21 Video Clip Ladder for Booker T. Washington Martin Puryear 1996

20. Near Chinatown Robert Connell 2007

21. First Avenue Robert Connell 2009

22. from Building Stories Chris Ware 2005

23. Superman Suicide Chris Ware 2000