Art Appreciation Chapter 5 Notes (2012) “Space” shape – a 2D area mass – any solid that occupies a 3D volume. figure-ground reversals - Fig. 5-3, the Rubin Vase (Vase/chalice or 2 faces?) The foreground becomes background. three dimensional space – has height, width, and depth negative shapes/spaces – empty space, sometimes the background, sometimes aquires a sense of form or volume (think architectural interior spaces) two dimensional space – no depth, flat, has height and width overlap – creates space, one figure or shape is behind another picture plane – The flat, two dimensional surface of a painting… imaginary plane corresponding with the paintings surface linear perspective – the illusion of 3D on 2D, perfected in the Renaissance (c. 1450) one-point linear perspective – one vanishing point vanishing point – the point where vanishing points appear to converge two-point linear perspective – two vanishing points axonometric projections – all lines remain parallel, Architects (and engineers) use this a lot. oblique projection – front parallels picture plane, sides stay parallel as they recede away from the viewer position – objects are higher on the picture plane as they recede into space foreshortening – decreasing distortion from visual contraction, see Fig. 148 virtual reality – artificial computer space SLIDES: Fig. 5-15, da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-98 Fig. 5-18, Gustave Caillebotte, Paris, a Rainy Day, 1876-77 (deep space) Fig. 5-29, Matisse, Red Room, 1908-09 (shallow space) Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 Ellsworth Kelly, Green, Blue, Red, 1964 Pontormo, The Visitation, 1526 Bill Viola, The Greeting, 1995 (video) Fig. 5-23, Dürer, The Art of Measurement, 1527 Fig. 5-24, Mantegna, The Dead Christ, 1501 Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538 Fig. 5-30, Cézanne, Madame Cézanne in a Red Chair, 1877