Art B20 - Introduction to Digital Arts
Project 5 - Linear Perspective and Realism
Linear Perspective (Latin "perspicere" - to see clearly)
A system of drawing or painting in which the artist attempts to create the illusion of spatial depth on a two-dimensional surface. It works by following consistent geometric rules for rendering objects as they appear to the human eye. For instance, we see parallel lines as converging in the distance, although in reality they do not. Stated another way, the lines of buildings and other objects in a picture are slanted inward making them appear to extend back into space. If lengthened these lines will meet at a point along an imaginary horizontal line representing the eye level. Each such imaginary line is called an orthogonal. The point at which such lines meet is called a vanishing point. - Artlex.com
Perspective links
One point perspective
Two point perspective
Three-point perspective
Realism - The realistic and natural representation of people, places, and/or things in a work of art.
The opposite of idealization. One of the common themes of postmodernism is that this popular notion of an unmediated presentation is not possible. This sense of realism is sometimes considered synonymous with naturalism.
Photo-Realism or photorealism - Realist paintings and sculptures involving thorough reproduction of detail. In painting the results were nearly photographic — in fact made from photographs (although painters had been working from photographs since the early days of photography).
Among the most highly regarded American photorealist painters are:
A sub-group; referred to as "hyperrealists"
Artists (from top to bottom)
Erica Fischer
Emily Davis
Scott Bohanon
Kayla Moudy
Evan Morelock
Jair Couch
