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Linear perspective for Year 10.
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The Theory of Perspective Year 10
“This perspective is a sweet and noble thing.”
Paolo Uccello, 15th century Italian artist.
Without a knowledge of linear perspective pictorial space is irregular …
Medieval painting www.wikiart.org
… including the relationship of figures to their context.
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Linear perspective is an invention of the Italian Renaissance.
In the early 15th century Filippo Brunelleschi developed the principles of linear perspective based upon experiments which he conductedin front of Florence Cathedral. The painter Masaccio put these to use in his fresco of the Holy Trinity in the nearby church of Santa Maria Novella.
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One-point perspective … almost completely.
Raphael’s School of Athens www.wikiart.com
Two-point perspective by Giorgio de Chirico.
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Three-point perspective gives very dramatic effects.
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Linear perspective is an illusion.
Linear perspective is an illusion, a trick useful to artists. It shows three dimensionson a two-dimensional surface.It’s magic! As you can see here, left.That’s two-point perspective by the way
Because it is not real it can be made to show non-real things.
Escher’s watermill seems to bein correct perspective but could not exist – water does not flow uphill.
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Correct perspective has been an aim of animators since the earliest days …
Steamboat Willie Disney, 1928
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… and is equally important to modern video games.
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