Page 104 - Art Attack Gr 9 LB SKU1007

PROBLEM:
How do artists convincingly show three-dimensional space on a flat surface? If you answered
perspective, you are cheating and reading the heading... You should have first mumbled a bit, and
’
scratched your head. You couldve said that space is created through overlapping objects, using
warm and cold colours, or losing detail in the background. Yes, you are quite right; these devices do
create and suggest a certain amount of space within an artwork... yet there is a better method of
creating depth.

The artists of The Italian Renaissance artists combined geometry and art
the Italian to create a view in an artwork that looked realistic-an
Renaissance
came up with imitation of the real world. The painting would look so real
the answer... that the viewer could easily mistake it for a window he/she
was looking out of, or an extension of the room that he/she
was in-as if they could walk into the space that was painted
in the picture. The Italian Renaissance painters therefore
created a three-dimensional illusion. Here are a few of their
masterpieces:

After TINTORETTO, The Finding of the Body of St. Mark, 1562-66 and ANDREA MANTEGNA, St. James Led
,
,
to Martyrdom, fresco Approx. 14 x 14 . Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Ovetari Chapel, Church of the Eremitani,
Padua

Artifact Publications and Training 2015 98