One and Two Point Perspective: Student Art Creating a Powerful Statement at SOIT!

One of the latest STEAM Art projects:  a One- and Two- Point Perspective Drawing with Color project that has been percolating for the past few weeks in Mrs. Simon's art class has yielded powerful student art works!  

This math/art project entitled, "Cities of the Future" has inspired breathtaking results that are currently being placed in new exhibitions spaces at SOIT created by Art PIR Triada Samaras. 

  

Pictured:  ART PIR Triada Samaras creates Cities of the Future Exhibit at SOIT with works done in Marilyn Simon's classes

Perspective is a combination of art and mathematics. It is a technique used to create the illusion of 3-dimensional space on a 2-dimensional surface through the apparent recession of lines to a vanishing point.  Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446,) an Italian engineer and architect discovered perspective in the 15th century. He observed that with a fixed single point of view, parallel lines appear to converge at a single point in the distance.  He used mirrors to paint a building in perfect perspective, mathematically calculating the scale of objects within a painting in order to make them appear realistic. Many other Renaissance artists used this method of perspective in their paintings.

Many more drawings are being created by the students as this blog is written so look for more images here of this project very soon!