HISTART 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Optical Illusion, Hiroshige
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Pictorial space, art in space, questions of scale. Oil painting - interior of a big cathedral church. High vaulted ceilings, which alludes there"s more to the picture than is shown. The painting is only one yard high, but it evokes more space. Scale matter - communicates and talks to you. Steel in st. louis actually big in real life. We infer what we"re seeing based on our prior interpretations. We grow accustomed to reading space in a specific way. Color, distinctness vs. blurriness, size, shape, relations of figure. Space is suggested through objects with and behind (or in front of) the surface of the picture. Outlines work to define shapes (distribution and proportion of the object) Regulatory to what goes into a picture. Cows depicted in great detail - down to the eyelashes on the cows. This is a confrontational picture - lots of texture through various layers of oil paint.