Pictorial Space
Key Factors:
Colour- Mark Rothko- tried to focus on impact of colour but can’t help avoiding creating a sense of space
Light- Grant Wood- Shrine Quartet
-Martin Lewis- Fifth Avenue Bridge
Focus- sharp objects are brought infront of something less sharp
-Mark Francis- Symbiosis, Labrynth
Figuration- figuration give us special cues which we recognise
-Michael Craig Martin- Japanese screen
-trick of photography and spatial manipulation- Martin Parr- Beauty spots: Glastonbury Tor
Scale- artists contradict what we expect- viewer sub consciously tries ad put it in to spatial relationship
-Matthew Craig Martin- Inhale/ exhale
Overlap- Patrick Caufield- Ceramic
-mural from Tomb of Neburnen- give preferred view of people- form side on with chest forward as it gives the most information
-ancient art scale was hieratic and then Greece replaced the flattened narrative with a more naturalistic view
Hellenistic art included overlap, hieratic and scale and was a freedom, of exploration and celebration
-Boscoreale Pompeii- no vanishing point, each component has its own special qualities and conflict each other
Perspective
-Martin Parr- Ocan Dome Myasaki (an illusion within an illusion)
-MC Escher- study for Cubic Space Division, House of Stairs, Tower of Babel, Escher created extremes to the point of obsession
1) one point of parallel perspective
2)two point or oblique perspective
3)three point or aerial perspective
Work which only works in photographs ( form one fixed viewpoint)- in real life people can appreciate the skill but don’t get the full impact
Trample L’oeil
-John Pugh, Academe Taylor Hall, Chico, CA
Reverse Perspective- David Hockney- Paint Trolley, Chair
Illusionary art has had its time of popularity and neglect but has developed over time and is used everywhere in the modern day. I found this quite repetitive but it allowed me to confirm techniques of perspective I have been taught and also appreciate spatial qualities in artworks. In particular I was amazed with the wall murals as I think they have a huge impact on the viewer even though they are limited to photography.
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