ARTHIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Chemical Bond, Sinopia, Giotto
13 May 2013
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Looking at prehistoric cave painting, mosaics, fresco, painted pots from ancient greece. Hieratic scale: most important figures are shown larger than others. Intuitive perspective: architectural details follow diagonal lines that the eye interprets as parallel. Objects that are meant to be receding in space away are gradually made smaller (ex=cityscape, house of publius fannius subnistor, boscoreale, c. 50-30 bce, detail of a wall painting) Atmospheric perspective: distant elements appear increasingly indistinct and less colorful. Background is fuzzy and less colorful (ex=leonardo da vinci"s mona lisa) Linear perspective: mathematical system in which orthagonals converge on a vanishing point, addressing a single viewer standing at a single, fixed vantage point (ex= perugino, The delivery of the keys to st. peter) Wall painting with horses, rhinoceros and aurochs, chauvet cave, france, paint on limestone, c. 32,000-30,000 bce. Hall of bulls, lascaux cave, france, paint on limestone, c. 15,000 bce.
