ARTS

• Space


  The field in which an artist works
• Space


  An element of art that refers to the distance or area between, around, above, below, or within things
• Types of: Space or Spatial Devices

  • Foreground/middle ground/background
  • Overlap
  • Placement
  • Size
  • Detail
  • Color
  • Value
• Size Relationship


  1. Creating a simple illusion of distance in the art space can be solved with the size variation

  2. Objects that are smaller will appear further away from the viewer
• Placement of Objects


  1. Objects placed higher than others in the drawing or within the picture plane will appear to be further away

  2. We perceive objects that are placed higher than others in the drawing appear to be farther back, and bigger as being in the forefront of a picture
• Overlapping of Objects


  1. When objects are partially obscured by other objects in front of them, we perceive them as further back than the covering objects

  2. When a form is understood to be in front of another, we automatically assume spatial depth
• Value Change


  1. Figures in the foreground in the drawing appear to be darker in value than those in the background

  2. Artists gradually lessen value and value contrasts for objects that appear further back in a composition
• Detail


  1. Objects closest to the eye have more detail than others that are further away

  2. Details related to the Space element are a much simpler concept in Art. The objects closer to the viewer will be a detailed picture, and the picture will be sharp and readable. The things which are far away from the viewer will have blurred images
• Aerial Perspective or Atmospheric Perspective


  • Method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a painting or drawing by modulating color to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere on the colors of things seen at a distance
  • As objects recede, colors begin to fade and may shift toward blue
• Space or Spatial Devices


  Methods used to create the appearance of space in an artwork
• Space or Spatial Devices

  • Foreground
  • Middle ground
  • Background
  • Overlap
  • Placement
  • Size
  • Detail
  • Color
  • Value
• Linear Perspective


  The use of lines and angles to create the illusion of three dimensional shapes
• Vanishing point


  The place on the horizon where parallel lines seem to meet
• Horizon line


  A level line where water or land seems to end and the sky begins
• Vanishing points are usually located on the horizon line
• Orthogonal or Converging line


  A straight line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane. The orthogonal in a painting appear to converge on each other as they recede toward one or more vanishing points on the horizon.
• Perpendicular line


  Intersecting at or forming right angles. Because humans tend to describe angles as they relate to the horizontal plane, perpendicular often means vertical. All "Verticals" (lines perpendicular to the ground - posts, corners) are vertical.
• Point of view


  The position or angle from which something is seen or considered; for instance, head-on, from overhead, from ground level, etc.
• Parallel


  Two or more straight lines or edges on the same plane that do not intersect
• One-Point Perspective


  A form of linear perspective in which all lines appear to meet at a single point on the horizon
• Two-Point Perspective


  A technique in art involving two lines diverging into two separate vanishing points