Picture Plane and Space

Relative Position

Wayne Thiebaud. Eight dogs

• Position indicates spatial depth.
• Close to, or sinks below the bottom of the picture plane: appears close to the viewer
• Close to, or disappears  to the side of the picture plane: appears as peripheral vision
• Close to the top of the picture plane or rising above: appears as distant, or hanging from above
• inside the picture plane, other factors such as scale indicate space

Class exercise: Describing space by creating a mark representing the size and shape of objects in the room.  Using value and position to create space.

Class exercise: Marks and shape describing flatness of the picture plane.

Review: direction: diagonal, horizontal, vertical, impilactions and uses.  Value range.  Figure/ground.

Overlapping

Duccio. Madonna with Angels

Wayne Thiebaud. Lipstick

Relative Scale

• Foreground, middle ground, background
• Placement in the picture plane

Wayne Thiebaud. Freeway 289

Atmospheric Perspective

• Overlapping best but optional
• less detail in the distance
• Lighter values in the distance

Atmospheric perspective/ Jerry Schad

Monet. Wheatstacks, End of Summer

Perspective

Walter de Maria. Mile Long Drawing

Wayne Thiebaud 24th street

Multiple Perspectives and Mixed Space

Duccio. Last Supper.

MC Escher. Relativity