Blog Post #6

                                                       "Heroic Landscape with Rainbow"
                                                         Created by: Joseph Anton Koch
While searching through the Metropolitan Museum of Art website I decided to choose the 2D landscape painting above since it has a good image of space and perspective. This drawing has a foreground, middleground and background. The clouds and the sky is the background of the painting. The trees, the lake and the small buildings is the middleground of the painting. On the other hand, the people, the goats, the trees and plants is the foreground of the painting. Not only do you see space which I described above, but you can also see relative size/scale, When you look at the trees, the mountains/cliffs there are different sizes that can relate to one another. What I mean by this is that there are bigger trees,bushes, and plants than others which makes them look far way from eachother. Also there are some buildings and mountains bigger than one another due to the distance of each. In addition there are certain objects overlapping eachother but you can still see them since there are just overlapping and not blocking one another. These overlapping objects are the bushes that is located on the middlegroud of the painting. They are located on the side of the small little buildings and you can see that the bushes looks bigger than the small buildings because of the linear perspective in the painting. However the depth and linear perspective of this painting is very important to focus on because it makes the painting look more realistic and gives the audience an idea of scale, the three main areas of artwork and the differents form of shapes. To end this, below there is a sketch drawing made by me of my kitchen/ dinning room from eye level which also relates to shape and perspective.