Perspective

Do you realize that we see the world from a perspective?

When you are in a bus, let's say you get on the bus from the front door, the seats get smaller and smaller towards the back, the aisle narrows towards the back, the ceiling is above your head where you are, but in the back of the bus it is at your eye level.

When I was in middle school, we were divided into groups and made to paint oil paintings to be exhibited. 

Our team was assigned the inside of the bus as the subject, these details are stuck in my mind from those days.

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How did real painters do it?

The painter raises his thumb and extends his arm forward to measure something in front of him, for example a tree, aligning it with his eye. It is important to draw that tree proportionally on the picture.

Or directors stretch both hands forward and use their thumbs and index fingers to make a rectangle and see how the image will look from the camera.

Of course, I think these are clichéd gestures.

Actually, it is possible to fit a lot of things into that tiny space, isn't it?

If you are painting, it is important to paint with perspective in mind.

It is not necessarily necessary to use perspective in art, but it is still a trend.

In Europe they divide the history of painting into four. 

- Ancient Art, pre-perspective, paintings up to 1425 

- The age of perspective, from the mid-15th century to the late 18th century, the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Romantic periods.

- The modern period, the forced modernization of painting with the discovery of photography after 1830

- The era of the digital image, the age of virtual images from the 1960s to the present

In the modern period, there are artists who use painting techniques beyond perspective. 

Some painters are almost challenging the age of perspective.

Modern methods such as Cubism, Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism are more prominent in these ages.

With the impressionism movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century, brush techniques come to the fore. Creating light and color changes when looking at the painting with brush movements is the general definition of this movement.

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I still like perspective paintings more. 

I don't know, maybe it's the effect of being an engineer, but a Pablo Picasso or a Vincent van Gogh is beautiful, of course, but the works of perspective painters starting with Masaccio are not bad at all.

In fact, it was the famous architect Filippo Brunelleschi, considered the father of Renaissance architecture, who discovered the technique of perspective drawing.

Since perspective adds a sense of depth on a two-dimensional plane, it has been a technique widely used by the painters of the perspective era.

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In the technical drawings we engineers make, we make our drawings without concern for perspective with different perspectives from three sides of the object we are drawing.

Although, since everything is now done with the help of computers, drawings are prepared in three dimensions and detailed drawings are projected on paper or on the computer screen by taking sections from the desired part of the model.

But if it is an architectural drawing, a three-dimensional perspective representation can be created automatically.

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Perspective is important! Even the way we look at life needs to include different perspectives.

Different perspectives in art are like the different colors of our lives.

Let me end this article by saying stay with art.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow