Illusions used by artists. (ArtEd Online).Artists through time have sought aids to help them create illusions of reality. Some historic methods included the use of perspective as a system of drawing and the use of the camera obscura as an aid to drawing. The camera obscura, especially, has been a recent subject of controversy through theories presented by the contemporary artist David Hockney David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. . A number of websites offer assistance in acquainting your students with these methods. Perspective Perspective is a system of drawing that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth and space on a two-dimensional surface. Its use developed from Renaissance artists' fascination with mathematics. Linear perspective uses sets of implied lines that move closer together in the distance until they merge at an imaginary vanishing point on the horizon. www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/watch_space_perspective.cfm, The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements and Principles is an engaging site for kids by The Minneapolis Institute of Art & Walker Art Center. Appealing graphics and interactive options of Watch (animated demonstrations), Find (examples of the concepts in works of art), and Create (students can create their own compositions) encourage student experimentation. www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/g_perspective.html, Sanford: A Lifetime of Color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color offers a simple explanation and illustration of linear perspective. www.handprint hand·print n. An outline or indentation left by a hand. .com/HP/WCL/tech12.html, This website, Basics of Perspective, has an extensive discussion of the different techniques of perspective. The Camera Obscura The camera obscura was a kind camera with a piece of glass that allowed light from a small hole to enter a dark room. It was used to project an image on paper or canvas parallel to the plane of focus. Recently, David Hockney has created a furor furor /fu·ror/ (fu´ror) fury; rage. furor epilep´ticus an attack of intense anger occurring in epilepsy. in the art world with his theory that artists used the camera obscura to create their paintings as far back as the 1420s. His critics argue that artists could not have used the camera obscura until the 1500s. www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?011126fr_archive02, and www.artkrush.om/thearticles/011_woa_weschleronhockney/index.asp The Looking Glass Looking Glass - A desktop manager for Unix from Visix. , first published in The New Yorker yorker Noun Cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat [probably after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club] , and Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures in Opticality with David Hockney, are two highly entertaining discourses on Hockney's theories written by Lawrence Weschler Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981 - 2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker . www.artandoptics.com Art and Optics is the website of a public conference held in 2001 that evaluated David Hockney's theories about "opticality in Western painting." www.getty.edu/art/collections /media.html?batch=0115&file=G02016V1&desc=Pearblossom%20Highway, Hockney's Pearblossom Highway features a video in which the artist discusses his theories about art. www.vermeerscamera.co.uk/home.htm The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura has extensive links to significant sites about this intriguing object. www.artscarolina.org/camera_obscura.html. Read about a camera obscura built in response to Hockney's book by a conceptual photography Conceptual photography is a photography genre in which the artists makes a photograph of a concept or idea. Thus the subject is strictly abstract, even though what is depicted in the photograph are real objects. class at the University of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. |
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