STEAM students in Ms. Reyes’s Art Class are creating two point perspective cities using acrylic paint and brushes on canvas boards. The 12 x 16 inch boards are being painted on table easels by drawing a sketch first with pencil then painting later. The goal of this art project is for the students to understand how objects and buildings appear to get smaller in the distance, and how to create this effect artistically by using linear perspective methods created in Renaissance Italy by Fillipo Brunelleschi.
Around 1420, Brunelleschi demonstrated the geometrical method of perspective, used today by artists, by painting the outlines of Florentine buildings onto a mirror. When the building’s outline was continued, he noticed that all of the lines converged onto the horizon line. Ms. Reyes’s art students re-created these experiments in the classroom using a mirror before they began their paintings. In so doing, students understood the close connection between linear perspective in art and mathematics, especially geometry. Later in history Leon Battista Alberti, an Italian architect, added mathematics to Brunelleschi’s findings.
STEAM students in Ms. Reyes' CAHTS class are also learning scientific principles in this art project, or how an imagined light source in their artwork can create three dimensionality through color changes the students can utilize as they paint. Light plays a critical part in these artworks. Thus, students are learning to using mix colors that create three dimensions in their buildings and roads, and make them appear as though they recede in space toward the horizon line.
In addition these art students are learning to create both aerial and atmospheric perspective in there artworks. These techniques were used to make buildings in paintings look three dimensional in the Netherlands in the 15th century and even as early as 30 B.C.E. in Ancient Rome.
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