Six ways to create the illusion of space

The following is a list of six ways to create the illusion of space in your artwork.

1) Linear perspective---Linear perspective is a drawing method that uses lines to draw objects in space.

2) Overlapping---When one object is positioned in front of another object, part of the object behind it may be blocked from view.

3)Size--- Objects that are closer to a viewer appear larger than objects that are further off in the distance.

4)Placement on the surface--- Generally, objects that are positioned lower on the picture plane will appear closer than objects that are positioned higher on the picture plane.

5) Color and Value--- Objects that are closer to a viewer appear darker in value and warmer in color.  Objects that are further away appear lighter in value and cooler in color.

6) Detail--- Objects that are closer appear more detailed than objects that are further away.

scale and proportion

Scale refers to the size of an object in relation to another object. While proportion refers to the relative size of parts of a whole.

The statue David is a good example of scale and proportion. The scale of this sculpture is over 13 feet tall. The proportions within the body are based on an ancient Greek mathematical system which is meant to define perfection in the human body.

Unity and Variety

"Unity can be defined as similarity, oneness, togetherness, or cohesion. Variety can be defined as difference."(Stewart pg66). Jasper Johns uses a variety of lines to keep the picture lively and not boring. Santos creates unity by using a limited color palette. Seurat uses a limited color palette as well to show unity. These artist can be found here on this website http://www.animationtaco.com/ap/ap_unity.html

Toothpaste Art

You'll be amazed to find out the above piece of art is not a painting. The above piece of art was created by Cristiam Ramos using toothpaste. Ramos creates celebrity portraits using nothing more than common toothpaste. Ramos spends up to 200 hours working on a single painting and 30 tubes of toothpaste. “It is very difficult to make these as the toothpaste becomes very sticky and dries quickly,” he explained. “The smell can also be overwhelming, which was challenging during the long days of up to 10 hours painting.”

You can see more of Ramos's work at his website http://www.cristiamramosart.com/

Tom Anderson

Remember Tom Anderson everyone's first friend on MySpace, well he's traded his MySpace profile for a new hobby: landscape photography. He began his hobby at Burning Man 2011. He credits his hobby to photographer Trey Ratcliff.

You can read more about Tom at http://abcnews.go.com/Photos/myspace-founder-tom-andersons-life-landscape-photographer/story?id=25364138

Trevor Paglen

So taking these DTC and Fine Arts classes are new to me this semester. The starting point for the DTC minor is DTC 355 and FA 331. I wish the minor would have started with some lower level courses,  feel out of place compared to some other students who seem to know a lot about art.

Anyway along my way in this course I am being introduced to new artist. One such artist is Trevor Paglen. Paglen is a digital artist who works with Limit-Telephotography. Limit-telephotography involves photographing landscapes that cannot be seen with the unaided eye. Paglen uses Limit-telephotography to show remote military installations. Limit-telephotography uses high powered telescopes that use a focal range of 1300mm to 7000mm.

German photographer. Gursky’s work is characterized by the tension between the clarity and formal nature of his photographs and the ambiguous intent and meaning they present, occasioned by their insertion into a ‘high-art’ environment. It is comparable to that of contemporaries such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer, all of whom were influenced by the documentary approach of Bernd and Hilla Becher. During the 1980s and 1990s Gursky’s work took on an increasingly global range of subjects, and he presented his images on an ever larger scale. Through all his work runs a sense of impersonality, a depiction of the structures and patterns of collective existence, often represented by the unitary behaviour of large crowds. His images of the stock exchanges of North America and East Asia are exemplary in the way that he uses crowds to create a type of picture comparable in formal terms to the ‘all-over’ compositions of the Abstract Expressionist painters. In the early 1990s Gursky used this format to represent grand urban landscape vistas in the Far East, juxtaposing different urban zones and suggesting an interplay between the zones of leisure and commerce.