1.3 - Implied Depth: Value and Space

How many vanishing points are employed in the twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher's Ascending and Descending?

3

Which of the following individuals developed theories on light and its properties that were important for the development of linear perspective?

Alhazen, Mozi, Leon Battista Alberti

The nineteenth-century American artist Asher Brown Durand's painting Kindred Spirits is a particularly good example of the use of which form of perspective?

Atmospheric

Which type of perspective system is the main one used to provide the illusion of depth in each of these artworks?

Atmospheric (mona lisa), Multiple Point (bridge), Isometric (war), One-point (man hung)

Artists who wish to suggest the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface have a choice of three main types of perspective. - perspective modifies value, color, and texture to create the sense that some parts of an image are further away than others. - perspective uses diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth. -perspective relies on a system where lines appear to converge at points in space.

Atmospheric, Isometric, Linear

What do traditional Chinese scroll paintings and many modern computer and video games have in common?

Both employ isometric perspective

When using linear perspective in an artwork, it is important to be aware of the area that a person can clearly see when focusing on a single point in space. What is this area called?

Cone of vision

The artist Filippo Brunelleschi invented linear perspective during the Italian Renaissance and proved its accuracy by measuring the height of the Florence Baptistery.

False

What genre of black-and-white films from the 1940s was known for its use of especially dark tones?

Film noir

What is the name of the perspective technique that is employed when depicting a form at a very oblique angle to the viewer in order to give the impression of depth in space?

Foreshortening

The use of non-overlapping parallel lines to convey darkness or lightness is known as -, and the use of additional parallel lines that overlap others is referred to as -.

Hatching, cross-hatching

Where do each of these values occur on the illustrated sphere?

Highlight, light, core shadow, reflected light, cast shadow

Who is the artist who used hatching and cross-hatching to draw the Head of a Satyr?

Michelangelo

What basic component(s) are necessary to make the one-point linear perspective system work?

Orthogonals, vanishing point, horizon line

Click on the eight areas of the illustrated painting where extra emphasis and drama are created by the use of dramatic chiaroscuro.

People Faces, hands, right most leg, and right middle line

Artists from which country and artistic period devised the chiaroscuro method of using value to create the illusion of solid forms in two-dimensional artworks?

Ranaissance, Italian

Which Belgian Surrealist employed value and perspective in his paintings in order to explore the relationship between reality and artistic illusion?

Rene Magritte

Which superhero in this illustration exhibits the most dramatic foreshortening?

Superman

What clue reveals that Raphael combined one-point and two-point perspective in the composition of The School of Athens?

The position of the stone black being used as a table

Why were traditional Chinese landscape painters never really interested in portraying space from a single viewpoint?

They preferred to convey multiple viewpoints simultaneaously

Which twentieth-century American painter used brightness and color to create and manipulate our sense of distance in his painting The Wreck of the Ole '97?

Thomas Hart Benton

What is the lightness or darkness of a plane or area called?

Value

Which artistic technique is employed to particular effect in this work by the French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon?

chiaroscuro