Blog post#6

Space, Overlapping,Scale and linear perspective

I took this painting from the Google art project link. The name of this artwork is “Landscape (1878)” by George Inness. In this painting spaces are very visible. The foreground of the painting is the trees and the hill in the left hand side. I describe this as foreground because this part of the art looks nearest to and in front of the viewer. The middle ground of the painting consists with people, dog, trees, river, shore, may be houses in the far away and so on. This part is in the middle of the painting and the area between the foreground and the background.  The Objects in this area look smaller and looks behind the foreground. Finally the background of the painting is the sky. The sky seems all way behind of everything else. There are some overlapping appear. Trees are overlapped. We see sky is behind of the trees and it was created by overlapping. The hill in the left side is also overlapped. We cannot see the anything behind the hill. There are also some examples of size relatives or scales. If we notice, we can see different sizes of trees, mountains, houses and so on. In the front objects are more visible and gradually it seems like disappearing. In some case we just guess, but cannot see the solid figures of objects. The painting is in the above of eye level. We can see the roof of the houses; the people are also in the above of the eye level. The painting has one vanishing point. If I make an image of converging lines, it apparent that, those lines meet at a single vanishing point the middle of the horizontal line. The combination of foreground/middle ground/background, overlapping, scale and perspective make the painting more clear. Without those elements the painting would look like flat, rather than presenting depth.

perspective drawing: (kitchen)