Cities of the Future is a STEAM project involving Math and Art done in Mrs. Simon's art classes at SOIT. This project incorporates both one- and two- point perspective drawing techniques with repeating patterns and colors. Students are asked to envision an imaginary futuristic city and to create it using both their newly learned drawing techniques as well as their research and imaginations. This project has yielded powerful student art works!
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.
Mrs. Simon asked her SOIT students to combine both one and two point perspective techniques using rulers and triangles and a single horizon line with two vanishing point on it. She explained how the picture plane, a mathematical element, is created with these two points of reference. She also encouraged her students to invent many aspects of their their cities as well as their foregrounds after the skeleton of the city was created using perspective techniques.
For a peek at last year's "Cities of the Futures Student works" see this blog at:
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